leo

n. [ AS. leód people, nation, man, chief; akin to OS. liud, OHG. liut, pl. liuti, G. leute, pl., fr. AS. leódan to grow, akin to Goth. liudan, OS. liodan, OHG. liotan to grow; cf. Skr. ruh. √123. ] People; a nation; a man. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. Bp. Gibson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) See Lionced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Leon, in Spain. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Leon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Leo: cf. F. léonides, pl. ] (Astron.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. leoninus, fr. leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. léonin. See Lion. ] Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity. -- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure, though he was not the inventor. The following line is an example: [1913 Webster]

Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum. [1913 Webster]

n. A small genus of tropical herbs and subshrubs of S Africa.
Syn. -- genus Leonotis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A genus of marmosets including some of the tamarins. Called also Leontopithecus and Leontideus.
Syn. -- genus Leontocebus, genus Leontideus, genus Leontopithecus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]