Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LENT'OR
LENT'OR, n. [L. from lentus, slow, tough, clammy; Fr. lenteur.]
- Tenacity; viscousness. – Bacon.
- Slowness; delay; slugishness. – Arbuthnot.
- Siziness thickness of fluids; viscidity; a term used in the humoral pathology. – Coxe. Quincy.
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