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A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.

A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States.

of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.

(Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

See Leontodon.

A very brave person.

Very brave; brave and magnanimous. Sir W. Scott.

Adorned with lions heads; having arms terminating in lions' heads; -- said of a cross. [Written also leonced.]

A small lion, especially one of several borne in the same coat of arms.

The whelp of a lioness; a young lion.

A female lion.

A young or small lion.

State of being a lion. Carlyle.

An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating or regarding as a lion.

To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest. J. D. Forbes.

Like a lion; brave as a lion.

Like a lion; fierce. [Obs.] Milton.

The state of being a lion.

y folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself. Thine own lips testify against thee. Jeb xv. 6.

A condition in which fat occurs in the blood.