Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LENT, pp.

of Lend.

LENT'EN, a.

Pertaining to lent; used in lent; sparing; as, a lenten entertainment; a lenten salad. Shak.

LEN-TIC'U-LAR, a. [L. lenticularis, from lens, supra.]

1. Resembling a lentil.
2. Having the form of a lens; lentiform.

LEN-TIC'U-LAR-LY, adv.

In the inner of a lens; with a curve.

LEN-TIC'U-LITE, n.

A petrified shell.

LENT'I-FORM, a. [L. lens and forma, form.]

Of the form of a lens.

LEN-TIG'I-NOUS, a. [L. lentigo, a freckle, from L. lens.]

Freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

LEN-TI'GO, n.

A freckly eruption on the skin.

LEN'TIL, n. [Fr. lentille, from L. lens.]

A plant of the genus Ervum. It is an annual plant, rising with weak stalks about 18 inches. The seeds, which a contained in a pod, are round, flat, and a little convex in the middle. It is cultivated for fodder, and for its seeds. Encyc.

LEN'TISK, or LEN-TIS'CUS, n. [Fr. lentisque; It. lentischio; Sp. lentisco L. lentiscus.]

A tree of the genus Pistacia, the mastich-tree, a native of Arabia, Persia, Syria, and the south of Europe. The wood is of a pale brown, resinous and fragrant. [See Mastich.]

LENT'I-TUDE, n. [L. lentus, slow.]

Slowness. [Not used.] Dict.

LENT'NER, n.

A kind of hawk. Walton. Leno, lentamente, in music, signifies slow, smooth and gliding.

LENT'OR, n. [L. from lentus, slow, tough, clammy; Fr. lenteur.]

1. Tenacity; viscousness. Bacon.
2. Slowness; delay; slugishness. Arbuthnot.
3. Siziness thickness of fluids; viscidity; a term used in the humoral pathology. Coxe. Quincy.

LENT'OUS, a. [L. lentus, slow, thick.]

Viscid; viscous; tenacious. Brown.

LEN'ZIN-ITE, n. [from Lencius, a German mineralogist.]

A mineral of two kinds, the opaline and argillaceous; a variety of clay, occurring usually in small masses of the size of a nut. Cleaveland. Phillips.

LE'O, n. [L.]

The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac.

LEOD, n. [Saxon.]

People; a nation.

LE'O-NINE, a. [L. leoninus,.from leo, lion.]

Belonging to a lion; resembling a lion, or partaking of his qualities; as, leonine fierceness or rapacity. Leonine verses, so named from Leo, the inventor, are those, the end of which rhymes with the middle; as, Gloria factorum temere conceditnr horum. Johnson.

LE'O-NINE-LY, adv.

In the manner of a lion. Harris.

LEOP'ARD, n. lep'ard. [L. leo, lion, and pardus, pard, Gr. {foreign}, from Heb. {foreign}, to separate, that is, spotted, broken. into spots.]

A carnivorous digitigrade mammal belonging to the genus Felis, i.e. the Cat group. It inhabits central Africa. Its fur is yellow, with at least ten ranges of small black clusters of spots on each flank.

LEOP'ARD'S-BANE, n.

The English popular name of several different plants, principally species of the genera Arnica and Doronicum.

LEP'A-DITE, a. [Gr. {foreign}.]

One of an order of Cirripodes, animals having cirri; the Goose barnacle, which is fixed to a solid substance by a tendinous, contractile tube. Kirby.

LEP'ER, n. [L. lepra, leprosy, Fr. lepre, Ir. lobhar, Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, a scale.]

A person affected with leprosy.

LEP'ID, a. [L. lepidus.]

Pleasant jocose. [Little used.]

LEP'I-DO-DEN-DRON, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a scale, and {foreign}, tree.]

A fossil tree, so named from the scaly appearance of the stem, produced by the separation of the leaf stalks. Mantell.