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Loins. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The first day of each month in the ancient Roman calendar. [Written also kalends.] The Greek calends, a time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.

Same as Calends.

insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

cies, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash. [R.] It lends a luster . . . A large dare to our great enterprise. Shak.

eness of place; a remote place. Easily managed from a distance. W. Irving. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. T. Campbell. [He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato. Addison.

Of or pertaining to Greece or the Greeks; Grecian. Greek calends. See under Calends. -- Greek Church (Eccl. Hist.), the Eastern Church; that part of Christendom which separated from the Roman or Western Church in the ninth century. It comprises the great bulk of the Christian population of Russia (of which this is the…

One who lends. The borrower is servant to the lender. Prov. xxii. 7.

See Lends. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The act of one who lends.

That which one lends or borrows, esp. a sum of money lent at interest; as, he repaid the loan. Loan office. (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender. (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.

lphide. Hence sable coal his massy couch extends, And stars of gold the sparkling pyrite blends. E. Darwin.

nating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day of the month. The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other months. The nones came on the eighth day (the nin…

One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. [Obs.] If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. Ex. xxii. 25.

natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window. 'T is distance lends enchantment to the view. Campbell.