Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of lean.
  • A Middle English form of lend.
  • In philology, smooth; surd and non-aspirate, as k, p, or t.
  • noun A smooth mute or non-aspirate surd, as k, p, or t.
  • A Middle English form of lean.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To lend; to grant; to permit.
  • adjective Smooth.
  • adjective Applied to certain mute consonants, as p, k, and t (or Gr. π, κ, τ).
  • noun The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
  • noun Any one of the lene consonants, as p, k, or t (or Gr. π, κ, τ).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun phonetics The smooth breathing (spiritus lenis).
  • noun phonetics Any of the lene consonants, such as p, k, or i (or Greek pi, kappa, tau).

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Examples

  • But she was already out of O'lene's earshot, running blindly toward Route 40.

    Every Secret Thing Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2003

  • 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."

    Rediscovering Europe's War-Time Writers 2010

  • 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,

    Rediscovering Europe's War-Time Writers 2010

  • 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.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 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.

    ideonexus.com »2007» February 2007

  • 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?

    Enquirer and Dirty Desperate David: Mallory Is Gay Nathaniel Livingston 2005

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  • 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.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • 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.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • So this woman Mary Magda - lene had committed adultery upon the ground of our mar - tyrs.

    The Gospel according to the Son Mailer, Norman 1997

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