a state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.-that course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.-stamp; character; nature.-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.-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.-a person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.