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Tenor
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
(2):
(n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
(3):
(n.) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
(4):
(n.) Stamp; character; nature.
(5):
(n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
(6):
(n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tenor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tenor.html. 1828.