Leonine
Pronunciation : Le"o*nine
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [L. leoninus, fr. leo, leonis, lion: cf. F. l?onin. See Lion.]
Definition : Defn: Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine repacity. -- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. 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: Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913