lentor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LENT'OR, noun [Latin from lentus, slow, tough, clammy.] 1. Tenacity; viscousness. 2. Slowness; delay; sluggishness. 3. Siziness; thickness of fluids; viscidity; a term used in the humoral pathology.
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