TENUOUS

Source: 566, 567

tenuous. Tenuous, a. thin, slender, small, minute

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Ten″u‐ous (?), a. [[L. tenuis thin. See Thin, and cf. Tenuis.]] 1. 1. Thin; slender; small; minute.
2. 2. Rare; subtile; not dense; — said of fluids.