leona

leona [cf. leaena, AN leune] , lioness. 1484 officium custodie leonum, ~arum et leopardorum infra turrim nostram London’ Pat 554 m. 25; hec liona, A. lyonys WW; superabat quippe furoris magnitudine tigrides fortitudineque leonas Mir. Hen. VI III 119.