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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LENTOR

n.[L. 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.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LENTOR

Len "tor, n. Etym: [L. fr. lentus pliant, tough, slow. See Lent, a.]

 

1. Tenacity; viscidity; viscidity, as of fluids.

 

2. Slowness; delay; sluggishness. Arbuthnot.