Lenitive

len'it-iv, adj., softening or mitigating: laxative. — n \nted.) an application for easing pain a mild purgative. Lenity, len'i-ti, n mildne clemency Lens, lenz, « op/us] a piece of gla or other transparent substance wjili one or both sides convex, so Called from its likene lo a lentil seed the crystalline hujnour of the ej'e. (L. lens lent the lentil.] Lent, lent, a fast of forty days, observed in commemoration of the fast of our Saviour, beginning with Ash- Wednesday and continuing Easter [M E lenten—A.S. Icuchn ihe spring. Out ate Gel lenz, acc, to some derived from root of Long, because in spring the days grow long.]