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<hw>Len"tous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>lentus</ets>. See <er>Lentor</er>.]</ety> <def>Viscid; viscous; tenacious.</def>

<blockquote>Spawn of a <b>lentous</b> and transparent body. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<mhw><h1>L'envoi, &or; L'envoy</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>L'en`voi"</hw>, &or; <hw>L'en`voy"</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></mhw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>le</ets> the + <ets>envei</ets> a sending. See <er>Envoy</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A conclusion; a result.</def>

<i>Massinger.</i>

<h1>Leo</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le"o</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. See <er>Lion</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The Lion, the fifth sign of the zodiac, marked thus <?/ in almanacs.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A northern constellation east of Cancer, containing the bright star Regulus at the end of the handle of the Sickle.</def>

<cs><col>Leo Minor</col>, <cd>a small constellation between Leo and the Great Bear.</cd></cs>

<h1>Leod</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le"od</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS.<ets>le\'a2d</ets> people, nation, man, chief; akin to OS. <ets>liud</ets>, OHG. <ets>liut</ets>, pl. <ets>liuti</ets>, G.<ets>leute</ets>, pl., fr. AS.<ets>le\'a2dan</ets> to grow, akin to Goth. <ets>liudan</ets>, OS. <ets>liodan</ets>, <ets>OHG</ets>. <ets>liotan</ets> to grow; cf. Skr. <ets>ruh</ets>. <ets><?/</ets>]</ety> <def>People; a nation; a man.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Piers Plowman. Bp. Gibson.</i>

<h1>Leon</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le"on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A lion.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Leonced</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le"onced</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>See <er>Lionced</er>.</def>

<h1>Leonese</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le`o*nese"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain.</def> -- <def2><tt>n. sing. & pl.</tt> <def>A native or natives of Leon.</def></def2>

<h1>Leonid</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le"o*nid</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Leo</er>: cf. F. <ets>l\'82onides</ets>, pl.]</ety> <fld>(Astron.)</fld> <def>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 shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.</def>

<h1>Leonine</h1> <Xpage=843>

<hw>Le"o*nine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>leoninus</ets>, fr. <ets>leo</ets>, <ets>leonis</ets>, lion: cf. F. <ets>l\'82onin</ets>. See <er>Lion</er>.]</ety> <def>Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; <as>as, a <ex>leonine</ex> look; <ex>leonine</ex> repacity.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Le"o*nine*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<cs><col>Leonine verse</col>, <cd>a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from <i>Leo<i>, or <i>Leoninus<i>, 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:</cd></cs>

<blockquote>Gloria <b>factorum</b> temere conceditur <b>horum</b>.

<h1>Leontodon</h1> <Xpage=843>