(v. i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
(v. i.) To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce.
(v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water;
to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
(v. i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going;
to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a
son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
(v. i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the
stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch
into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion;
to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.
(n.) The act of launching.
(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water;
especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war;
also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity,
or the like.
