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Len*tig"i*nose` (ln*tj"*ns`), a. [See Lentiginous.] (Bot.) Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.

Len*tig"i*nous (-ns), a. [L. lentiginosus. See Lentigo.] Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

||Len*ti"go (ln*t"g), n. [L., fr. lens, lentis, lentil.] (Med.) A ||freckly eruption on the skin; freckles. || Len"til (ln"tl), n. [F. lentille, fr. L. lenticula, dim. of lens, lentis, lentil. Cf. Lens.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant of the genus Ervum (Ervum Lens), of small size, common in the fields in Europe. Also, its seed, which is used for food on the continent.

The lentil of the Scriptures probably included several other vetchlike plants.

Lentil shell (Zoöl.), a small bivalve shell of the genus Ervillia, family Tellinidæ.

{ Len*tis"cus (ln*ts"ks), Len"tisk (ln"tsk), } n. [L. lentiscus, lentiscum: cf. F. lentisque.] (Bot.) A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.

Len"ti*tude (ln"t*td), n. [L. lentitudo, fr. lentus slow: cf. OF. lentitude. See Lent, a.] Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]

||Len"to (ln"t; E. ln"t), a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Slow; in slow time; ||slowly; -- rarely written lente. || Len"toid (ln"toid), a. [Lens + -oid.] Having the form of a lens; lens- shaped.

||Len"tor (-tr), n. [L., fr. lentus pliant, tough, slow. See Lent, a.] ||1. Tenacity; viscidity, as of fluids. || 2. Slowness; delay; sluggishness. Arbuthnot.

Len"tous (-ts), a. [L. lentus. See Lentor.] Viscid; viscous; tenacious.

Spawn of a lentous and transparent body.

Sir T. Browne.

||L'en`voi", or L'en`voy" (län`vwä"), n. [F. le the + envoi a sending. ||See Envoy.] 1. One or more detached verses at the end of a literary ||composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a ||particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. Shak. || 2. A conclusion; a result. Massinger.

||Le"o (l"), n. [L. See Lion.] (Astron.) 1. The Lion, the fifth sign of ||the zodiac, marked thus [] in almanacs. || 2. A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.

Leo Minor, a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear.

Le"od (l"d), n. [AS. leód people, nation, man, chief; akin to OS. liud, OHG. liut, pl. liuti, G. leute, pl., fr. AS. leódan to grow, akin to Goth. liudan, OS. liodan, OHG. liotan to grow; cf. Skr. ruh. √123.] People; a nation; a man. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Bp. Gibson.

Le"on (l"n), n. A lion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Le"onced (l"nst), a. (Her.) See Lionced.

Le`o*nese" (l`*nz" or - ns"), a. Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Leon.

Le"o*nid (l"*nd), n. [From Leo: cf. F. léonides, pl.] (Astron.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

Le"o*nine (l"*nn), a. [L. leoninus, fr. leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. léonin. See Lion.] Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity. -- Le"o*nine*ly, adv.

Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example:

Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.

Le*on"to*don (l*n"t*dn), n. [Gr. le`wn, le`ontos, lion + 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, tooth. Cf. Lion's- tooth, Dandelion.] (Bot.) A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.

Leop"ard (lp"rd), n. [OE. leopart, leparde, lebarde, libbard, OF. leopard, liepart, F. léopard, L. leopardus, fr. Gr. leo`pardos; le`wn lion + pa`rdos pard. See Lion, and Pard.] (Zoöl.) A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and Africa. By some the panther (Felis pardus) is regarded as a variety of leopard.

Hunting leopard. See Cheetah. -- Leopard cat (Zoöl.) any one of several species or varieties of small, spotted cats found in Africa, Southern Asia, and the East Indies; esp., Felis Bengalensis. -- Leopard marmot. See Gopher, 2.

Leop"ard's bane` (lp"rdz bn`). (Bot.) A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana, Senecio Doronicum, and Paris quadrifolia.

Leop"ard*wood`, n. (Bot.) See Letterwood.