tenanting

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I lost myself in conjectures as to what sort of people might be tenanting that lonely edifice, and whether they knew any thing about us.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Melville, Herman

The pieces by which this complicated machine is framed, are joined together in various places by scarfing, rabbeting, tenanting, and scoring.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Another group of Hypozoa is that termed Gregarinida, a group made up of very lowly parasites, such as are often found tenanting the intestines of insects as well as those of higher animals.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

I have three strong reasons: First, as I told you, it is the only thing that will cleanse your heart of bitterness and leave it free for the tenanting of a great and holy love.

From The Harvester by Stratton-Porter, Gene

Now again he may be found at times tenanting huts, or the forms of shelter which are supposed to represent them.

From Above the Snow Line by Dent, Clinton Thomas