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Attentively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] Johnson.

One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts xviii. 3.

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.

The awning or covering of a tent. [Obs.] Evelyn.

A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

To make thin; to attenuate. [R.]

Having thin or narrow leaves.

Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.

One of the Tenuirostres.

Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

One of the three surd mutes k, p, t; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, g, b, d, and their aspirates, x, f, th. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

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.

Lacking substance, as a tenuous argument.

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate. That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.

See Legislature, Austria, Prussia.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

A standing aloof. [Obs.]

The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.