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Show LE LE An f a c b Their commons, thoug ther a {cant In this one paflion man can ftrength enjoy Time, that on all things lays his /enient hand Yet tames not this; it fticks to our laft fand r g f a u i n l o i The cryftalline h o t e C o s d convex on both f Confolatories wri With ftudy'd argument, and much perfuafion fought Milton Qils relax the fibres, are Zenient, balfamick, an Arbutbnot on Alim abate acrimony in the blood Lr'NiENT. #./- An emollient, or afluafive ‘application Wifeman's Surgery 9o Lr'~iry. «w. n. [lenifier, old French lenio, Latin.] To affuage; to mitigate Ufed for fquinancies and inflammations in th throat, it feemeth to have a mollifying and ZerifyBacon ing virtue All foft''ning fimples, known of fov'reign ufe He prefits out, and pours their noble juice "Thefe firft infus''d, to /erify the pain He tugs with pincers, but he tugs in vain. Dryden hav Some plant a, mil the cauf in them may be an inception of putrefaction milks have all an acrimony, thoug think they fhould be Znitive There is aliment /emitive expellin without ftimulating the bowels; fuc for thof one woul Bacon the feece are anima oils Arbuthnot Le'~NiTIvE. 2. 1. Any thing medicinally applied to eaf pain 2. A palliative There are Ienitives that friendfhip will anply, before it would be brought to decratory rigours South's Sermons Le'w1ry nefs temper 2. mercy [lenitas foftnef Leniry ranft gai 'I'he mighty mien, and pleafe the difcontent. Dar Albeit fo ample 2 pardon was proclaimed touch be: beate ing treafon, yet could not the boldnefs or with /enity be abated Hayward Thefe jealoufie Have but one root, the old imprifon'd king Whofe /enity firft pleas'd the gaping crowd But when long try'd, and found fupinely good . Like Afop's log, they leapt upon his back. Dryd Lzwns. z./. From refemblance to the fee of a lentil A glafs fpherically convex on both fides, is ufually called a /ens; fuch as is a burning-glafs, or fpec tacle-glafs, or an object-glafs of a teiefcope DNeawton's Opticks According to the difference of the /enfes, I ufe wvarious diftances Lent part. pafl. from /end Newwton's Opticks By Jove the firanger and the poor are fent And what to thofe we give, to Jove-is lent.. Pope LENT. ». /. [lencen, the {pring, Saxon. The quadragefimal faft; a tim of ab Th metals were cured Le'rrosy And alfo who Such as i " My lord, if you delight not in man what Zente entertainment the players fhall receive from you Leod fignifies the people Thus, leodgar is one of great ingeref with the people or nation Gibfon Lzor . /. Lesf denotes love; fo leo e Shakefp. Hamlet that he were Spenfer t a fubflantive it implies the ab fence or privation of the thing expreffe by that fubfantive : as awin 1s a winner of love5 leofffan, bef beloved : like thefe Agapetus, Erafmus Le'orarp. n. f. [leo and pardus, Lat A fpotted beaft of prey. Le'rry. [from lere.] A rating; a lecture Ruftick word Less. A negative or privative termina tion. [leay, Saxon ; /oos, Dutch.] Join Brown Gloria fa&orum temere conceditur horum and whence Though he that had well ycond his Zere Thus melled his talk with many a teare than the other ; for it rifeth not in diftillation name Donne The leid pitying his heavinefs Afked the caufe of his great diftrefs a fubftance more compacted and terreftriou f Wileman's Surgery LerE. #. £ [lene, Saxon ; Jere, Dutch. Obfolete A lefflon; lore; doétrine This fenfe is ftill retained in Scotland. In this fpawn of a /entons and tranfparent body are to be difcerned many fpecks which becom end rhimes to the middle from Zeo the inventor : as lepre, Fr. Lat [lepra The filly amorous fucks his death By drawing in a.eproxs harlot's breath tenacious; capable to be drawn out € Bacon's Nat. Hifl Lr'provs. adj. [lepra, Latin; lepreus French.] Infected with a leprofy Quincy Vifcous country they would become gold leprofy [In phyfick. That fizy, vifcid, coagulated part of the blood, which, i malignant fevers, obftructs the capillar fmtion /Jeprofities o looked wpon it fo highly infeGious, that they ra away from it as much as the Jews did from th ‘The lentor of eruptions, not inflamymatory, point Arbuthnot on Diet to an acid caufe veflels Le'~nTous. adj. {lentus, Latin. #. f an tween the itch of novelty and the /profy of difKing Charles loyalty Authors, upon the firft entrance of the pox a witle/s man a man without wit; childle/s, withou children ; fatherle/s, deprived of a fa Philo, Amandaus, &c. Gibfon's Camden ftinence; the time from Athwednefday | Le‘oniNE adf. [leoninus, Latin. to Eafter 1 Belong n t a lion; having the naLent is from fpringing, becavfe it falleth i ture of a lion the fpring; for which our progenitors, the Ger2. Leonine verfes are thofe of which th mans, ufe glent Camden Le'nTen. adj. [from lnt. ufed in lent ; fparing Squa Itches, blains Sow all the Athenian bofoms, and their cro Shake[ps Timon of Athenss Be general leprofy Lewv. xiile 3 1t is a plague of Zprofy Between the malice of my enemies and othe men's miftakes, ¥ put as great a difference as be Walton's Angler leprofy; leprous A loathfome diftemper, which cover the body with a kind of white {cales 2. Slownefs; delay; fluggifh coldnefs rather wit crudities, impurities If th Some bodies have a kind of /Jentor, and mor Bacou depedtible nature than others or the plague is, his cloath BeLEe PoRINE. adj. [leporinus, Lat. longing to a hare; having the nature o a hare LE'NTOR. . J. [lentor, Lat. lenteur, Fr. 1. Tenacity ; vifcofity z. / Sbakefp Upon my fecure hour thy uncle ftole With juice of curfed hebenon in a vial And in the porches of mine ears did pou Shakefpeare's Hamlet The leperous diftilment and the two forts of lentners Lew. xiii. 48 infefte {y refinous whitifh Le'rerovs. adj. [Formed from leprous Caufing leproto make out a verfe. I thould enlarge my difcourfe to the obfervatio Le‘op leper in who fhall be rent Le'NTiTUDE. 7 [ [from /Jentus, Lat. Dig Sluggithnefs; flownefs Le'wTwER. 2.f. A kind of hawk black Latin. 1 am no loathfome /eper5 look on me gum of which it of ufe for the teeth or gums Mortimer's Hufbandry 3 fpit much after th Le'pEr. 7. fo [lepra, leprofus One infeéted with a leprofy Lentifck is a beautiful evergreen, the maftich o of the haggard alf [lentifeus, Latin 5 len- Lepro'sity. 2. /. [from Jeprous. ~Lentifck wood is of mous difeafe almof brown wil Gro kite doth from an eagle Before the king tame Zopards led the way Drydsn And troops of lions innocently play fragrant, and acrid: it is the tree whic produces maftich, efteemed aftringen Hill and balfamick o Henry gives confent Of meer compaffion, and of lenity Shakefpeare's Heno V "T'o eafe your country down either with feverity pal Mild Latin. tendernefs Le'~Tisck. n.f tifque, French. is every way, in fhape and atiop his head, teeth, tongue, feet, claws a cat's: he boxes with his fore-fect her kittens; leaps at the prey, as fame manner : fo that they feem to differ, juft as o t e o f t h I l c b o d p o f which b a e a l t r p f m t f s e f conjugated, growing to onc mid-rib, and are terMiller minated by tendrils The Philiftines were gathered together, wher was a piece of ground full of /lentiles 2 Sam. xxiiis 11 Le'niTive. adj. [lenitif, French; lenio Latin.] Afluafive; emollient leopar a cat all lik cat dot cat at a moufe ; an e [ LE'NTI1FORM. ad Having the form of a lens Lentr cinous, a Scurfy; furfuraceous o / n LENTIG i f t fcurfy erup i t i a efpecial child-bear l i n l s e [ J Le'~tiL. n A plant . Laxative ; -emollient I drefled it with Jenients lik tail as LENTI CULAR. adj o Doubly convex Pope Lenient of grief and anxious thought Sheep run not half fo tim'rous from the wol Or horfe or oxen from the leopard As you fly from your oft-fubdued flaves. Shakefp d o f t a r f h She quench h ' o c a l f with a lente 1. Affuafive 3 foftening ; mitigating 2. With o L.B ther; pennyle/s, wanting money The compaLrss. adj. [lear, Saxon. rative of little: oppofed to greater, 0i 1 Jo great; not fo much ; not equal Maiy, the mother of Jame the /fs Maork Xvs 40 He that thinks he has a pofitive ideas of indinit fpace will find, that he.can no more have a pofitiv idea of the greateft than he has of the leatt {pace for in this latter we are- capable only of a cont parativ |