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i. [ The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The gla es of my sight. Shak ., Cor., iii. 2. 116. We will be gone for some days probably, tenting it in the open air. Kane , Sec. Grinnell Exp., L. 357. Where the red chieftain tented In the days that are gone. R. W. Gilder, Ballad of the Chimney.