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to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott.

the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter. He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament.…

Having the testicles naturally concealed, as in the case of the cetaceans.

The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. Dryden.

o tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.

understood) "the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life." Many speak of theology as a science of religion [instead of "science of God"] because they disbelieve that there is any knowledge of God to be attained. Prof. R. Flint (Enc. B…

pernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.

cal processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.

A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.

A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

A dealer in tobacco; also, a manufacturer of tobacco.

be, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer. -- Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel…

a locomotive engine, and so placed as to assist in deadening any shock which may occur. Weale. -- Trailing wheel, a hind wheel of a locomotive when it is not a driving wheel; also, one of the hind wheels of a carriage.

pass On his transgression, death denounced that day Milton. The transgression is in the stealer. Shak.

res) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9. Weale.

Work or devices suitable to be concealed; a secret stratagem. [Obs.]

The timbers, etc., which form a truss, taken collectively. Weale.

A great quantity or heap. Weale.

Not to be appealed from; -- said of a judge or a judgment that can not be overruled. The infallible, unappealable Judge [God]. South. We submitted to a galling yet unappealable necessity. Shelley. -- Un`ap*peal"a*bly, adv.

Not closed; not sealed; open. Byron.