Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A Middle English form of lean.
- A Middle English form of lean.
- A Middle English form of lend.
- In philology, smooth; surd and non-aspirate, as k, p, or t.
- n. A smooth mute or non-aspirate surd, as k, p, or t.
Wiktionary
- n. phonetics The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
- n. phonetics Any of the lene consonants, such as p, k, or i (or Greek pi, kappa, tau).
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To lend; to grant; to permit.
- adj. Smooth.
- adj. Applied to certain mute consonants, as p, k, and t (or Gr. π, κ, τ).
- n. The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
- n. Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. π, κ, τ).
Examples
“But she was already out of O'lene's earshot, running blindly toward Route 40.”
“These include moving first-hand testimonies of the Holocaust like "The Journal of H lene Berr," which came out in France and the U.K. in 2008,”
The Wall Street Journal: Rediscovering Europe's War-Time Writers
“Mr. MacLehose, who published "The Journal of H lene Berr" in the U.K. in 2008 and is also responsible for coming titles like "The Road" and Chil Rajchman's "Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory," believes that publishers have a responsibility to bring out books "of real historical value.”
The Wall Street Journal: Rediscovering Europe's War-Time Writers
“I will conclude in his lines, Si me cognitum haberes, non solum donares nobis has facetias nostras, sed etiam indignum duceres, tam humanum aninum, lene ingenium, vel minimam suspicionem deprecari oportere.”
“Recursul Magic's constă în romantism şi lene sa. "100th Monkey" phenomneon promite o comandă rapidă pentru iluminarea, în schimb, o schimbare de paradigmă substansive într-o specie nevoie de timp şi efort.”
“Update III 09/17/05, 10:10: Checked another one of Korte's blog entries and found this interesting comment from lene: Is it true that Greg Korte's girl friend works for the Pepper campaign?”
“Thank you!!! millwald tavern shane company sx1240 full gear upright vacuum dyson shipping cleaner free intex jump o lene xerox phaser 840 polaroide arachnid folding game pads photochromic sct magnifying glass light pocket chi”
“Thidre gone Marchauntes, and bryngen with hem children, to selle to hem of the contree, and thei byzen hem: and zif thei ben fatte, thei eten hem anon; and zif thei ben lene, thei feden hem, tille thei ben fatte, and thanne thei eten hem: and thei seyn, that it is the best flesche and the swettest of alle the world.”
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“So this woman Mary Magda - lene had committed adultery upon the ground of our mar - tyrs.”
“Nolton said, "Well, Mar-lene's off at her spa and -”
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wtyndalewordnik EXAMPLE OF WORD USE :"No man can serve two masters. For other he shall hate the one, and love the other: or els he shall lene the one, and despise the other.Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24 in 1526 Tyndale New Testament.
Jan 2, 2010
wtyndalewordnik "No man can serve two masters. For other he shall hate the one, and love the other: or els he shall lene the one, and despise the other.Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24 in 1526 Tyndale New Testament.
Would the 1526 Tyndale New Testament use of this in Matthew 6:24 be the equivalent of to "grant/permit" or the equivalent of "lean on" since both versions of "lene" seem possible from these entries. I wonder which he had in mind........(A modern translation of the Greek would be "be loyal to") Jan 2, 2010
whichbe (Obscure) To lend; to grant; to permit. Sep 5, 2008