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▪ I. † lent, n.2 Obs.
Also lente.
[ad. L. lent-em, lens.]
collect. sing. Lentils.
1382Wyclif Ezek. iv. 9 Take thou to thee whete, and barli, and bene, and lent. 1388― 2 Kings xxiii. 11 For⁓sothe there was a feeld ful of lente.
▪ II. lent, n.3 Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 lente, 7 lenth, 9 length.
[f. lent, pa. pple. of lend.]
The action of lending; loan.
14..in Arnolde Chron. 281 That for y⊇ most part the conuenable seson of themploynge of the good lente was passed. 1646Mass. Col. Rec. (1853) II. 163 Maior Nehemiah Bourne..is granted ye lent of one drake from Dorchestr. 1682–3Hartland Ch. Acc. (Hartland Gloss.), Pd for the lenth of two sarges 1s. 6d. a1704De la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 163 Thanking him exceedingly for the lent therof. 1740Twells Life Pocock (1816) I. 207 Upon the lent of Mr. Pocock's copy. 1797–1805S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. III. 456 Owens offered him the lent of his scythe. 1883Hampsh. Gloss., Lent, length, the loan of a thing.
▪ III. lent, a.|lɛnt|
Also lente.
[a. F. lent, ad. L. lent-us.]
†1. Slow, sluggish; said esp. of a fever, a fire. Obs.
14..in Lanfranc's Cirurg. (1893) 297 note, Boile hit with a lente fyre. 1590P. Barrough Meth. Phisick 392 Make a distillation with a lente and soft fire. 1610B. Jonson Alch. iii. ii, We must now encrease Our fire to Ignis ardens, we are past Fimus equinus, Balnei, Cineris, And all those lenter heates. 1658Baillie in Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) App. 36/2 A lent feaver and defluxion. 1662― Lett. & Jrnls. (Bannatyne Club) III. 433 The last trick they have fallen on, to usurp the Magistracie, is..to get the deacons..created on their side;..but this lent-way does no satisfie. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet (1736) 342 A continual Lent-Fever, with Rigors invading with uncertain Periods.
†b. quasi-n. Slowness, delay. Obs.
c1435Torr. Portugal 2561 Withoute lent, They wesh and to mete went.
2. Mus. = lento. Now rare.
1724[see lento]. 1726Bailey, Lent [in Musick Books] denotes a slow Movement, and signifies much the same as Largo. 1876Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms, Lent (F.), Slow, lento. 1882J. Walker Janet to Auld Reekie, etc. 31 Wha played like thee a lente solo, Reel or Strathspey.
▪ IV. lent, ppl. a.|lɛnt|
Also 4–5 lant(e.
[pa. pple. of lend v.2]
In senses of the vb. lend. (Formerly often used where we should now say ‘borrowed’.)
13..S. Erkenwolde 192 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 270 He [the dead man] dryues owte wordes þurghe sum lant goste, lyfe of hyme þat al redes. c1420Sir Amadace (Camd.) xxxviii, For gud his butte a lante lone, Sum tyme men haue hit, sum tyme none. 1560Becon New Catech. Wks. 1564 I. 402 Examples..which may assertain vs of this liberality and lent good wil of God toward us. 1619C. Brooke Ghost Rich. III, H 3, In happy howre, I pai'd th' arrerages of his lent Good. 1631A. Craig Pilgr. & Heremite 5 When pale Ladie Luna, with her lent light, Through the dawning of the Day was driven to depart.
▪ V. † lent, v. Obs.
[f. lent, obs. pa. pple. of lean v.1]
intr. To lean.
1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. v. 363 A Child overturning himself or lenting backward..may soon get hurt.
▪ VI. lent
obs. pa. tense and pple. of lean v.1 |