a. nonce-wd. [f. L. lent-us slow + -OUS.] Clammy, viscid.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 54. Chrystall … is a minerall body … made of a lentous colament of earth, drawne from the most pure and limpid juyce thereof.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Lentous, soft, tender.
