Leonine /(lē"ō̇*nīn)/

Le·o·nine

Leonine

a.
  1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine rapacity.
    Gloria factorum temere conceditur horum.

Phrases & Compounds
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: