Lent | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Lēnt, n.

noun

n. [O. Eng. lenten, lengte, A-S. lengten, lencten, spring, lent; D. lente, O. L. Ger. lenten, O. H. Ger. lengzīn, lenzīn, lenzo, langes, M. H. Ger. lenze, N. H. Ger. lenz, perhaps from A-S. lengian, to lengthen, because at this season of the year the days lengthen.] (Eccl.) A fast of forty days, beginning with Ash-Wednesday and continuing till Easter, observed by many Christian churches as commemorative of the fast of our Savior.

Lēnt, n.

noun

n. That which is loaned; a loan. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Lēnt, a.

adjective

a. [compar. LENTER; superl. LENTEST.] [Lat. lentus, contracted from lenītus, softened, p. p. of lenīre, Fr. & Pr. lent, Sp. & It. lento. See LENIENT.]

Slow; mild; as, lenter heats. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
(Mus.) See LENTE.