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Leʹonine Contract

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A one-sided agreement: so called in allusion to the fable of The Lion and his Fellow-Hunters. (See Glaucus.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Lens (Latin, a lentil or bean)
Lenson
Lent (Anglo-Saxon, lencten)
Lent Lily (The)
Lenten
Leodogrance
Leon (in Orlando Furioso)
Leonard
Leonidas of Modern Greece
Leonine Contract
Leonine Verses
Leonnoys, Leonnesse, or Lyonnesse
Leonora
Leontes
Leopard
Leopards
Lepracaun
Lerna
Les Anguilles de Melun
Lesbian Poets (The)