Tent"mak`er (?), n. One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts
xviii. 3.
||Ten*to"ri*um (?), n. [L., a tent.] (Anat.) 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.
||
Tent"o*ry (?), n. [L. tentorium a tent.] The awning or covering of a
tent. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Tent"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under
Wall.
Ten"u*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tenuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Tenuating.] [L. tenuatus, p. p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis
thin. See Tenuous.] To make thin; to attenuate. [R.]
Ten`u*i*fo"li*ous (?), a. [L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf.] (Bot.)
Having thin or narrow leaves.
Te*nu"i*ous (?), a. [See Tenuous.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; — opposed
to dense. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Ten`u*i*ros"ter (?), n.; pl. Tenuirosters (#). [NL., fr. L. tenuis thin
+ rostrum a beak.] (Zoöl.) One of the Tenuirostres.
Ten`u*i*ros"tral (?), a. (Zoöl.) Thin-billed; — applied to birds with a
slender bill, as the humming birds.
||Ten`u*i*ros"tres (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) An artificial group of
||passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.
||
||Ten"u*is (?), n.; pl. Tenues (#). [NL., fr. L. tenuis fine, thin. See
||Tenuous.] (Gr. Gram.) One of the three surd mutes κ, π, τ; — so
||called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, γ,
||β, δ, and their aspirates, χ, φ, θ. The term is also applied to the
||corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.
||
Te*nu"i*ty (?), n. [L. tenuitas, from tenuis thin: cf. F. ténuité. See
Tenuous.] 1. 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.
2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of the
air; the tenuity of the blood. Bacon.