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Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats. [Obs.] B.Jonson.

the daffodil; -- so named from its blossoming in spring.

Slowly; in slow time.

Slackening; retarding. Same as Rallentando.

Lent. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

The season of Lenten or Lent.

One of the small, oval, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.

Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.

Lenticel.

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

Resembling a lentil in size or form; having the form of a double-convex lens.

In the manner of a lens; with a curve.

Lenticular.

Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

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.

A tree; the mastic. See Mastic.

Slowness; sluggishness. [Obs.]

Slow; in slow time; slowly; -- rarely written lente.