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  • English Word Tentiginous Definition Lustful, or pertaining to lust.
  • English Word Tenting Definition of Tent
  • English Word Tentmaker Definition One whose occupation it is to make tents.
  • English Word Tentorium Definition A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.
  • English Word Tentory Definition The awning or covering of a tent.
  • English Word Tentwort Definition A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.
  • English Word Tenuate Definition To make thin; to attenuate.
  • English Word Tenuated Definition of Tenuate
  • English Word Tenuating Definition of Tenuate
  • English Word Tenues Definition of Tenuis
  • English Word Tenuifolious Definition Having thin or narrow leaves.
  • English Word Tenuious Definition Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.
  • English Word Tenuiroster Definition One of the Tenuirostres.
  • English Word Tenuirosters Definition of Tenuiroster
  • English Word Tenuirostral Definition Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.
  • English Word Tenuirostres Definition An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
  • English Word Tenuis Definition One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
  • English Word Tenuity Definition The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.
  • English Word Tenuity Definition Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the air; the tenuity of the blood.
  • English Word Tenuity Definition Poverty; indigence.
  • English Word Tenuity Definition Refinement; delicacy.
  • English Word Tenuous Definition Thin; slender; small; minute.
  • English Word Tenuous Definition Rare; subtile; not dense; -- said of fluids.
  • English Word Tenuous Definition Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.
  • English Word Tenure Definition The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.
  • English Word Tenure Definition The manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior.
  • English Word Tenure Definition The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.
  • English Word Tenure Definition Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
  • English Word Teocalli Definition Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.
  • English Word Teocallis Definition of Teocalli