Ăn'e-lāçe, n.

n. [L. Lat. anelacius; either from Lat. anellus, or anulus, a ring, from one fastened to the hilt, by which it was 'carried; or from O. H. Ger. laz, Lat. latus, side.] A kind of knife or dagger worn at the girdle by civilians till about the end of the fifteenth century. See ANLACE. Fosbroke.