v. [f. LATE a.1 + -EN.] a. intr. To become or grow late. b. trans. To make late. Hence Latening vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1880. Miss Broughton, Second Thoughts, III. v. Meanwhile the rich summer latens.
1887. Athenæum, 19 Feb., 252/2. The … calculation of fifty minutes’ latening [of the moon] every day.
1889. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 Nov., 2/1. The first numbers of the new daily will have to go to press as early as 11 p.m., latening the hour by degrees.
1890. Temple Bar, Aug., 474. At this latening season.
