Lent

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·- imp. & ·p.p. of Lend.

II. Lent ·adj ·see Lento.

III. Lent ·adj Slow; mild; gentle; as, lenter heats.

IV. Lent ·Impf & ·p.p. of Lend.

V. Lent ·noun A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by some Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.