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s darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.

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.

A South European plant 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.

Without ganglia.