Tenaille (n.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
Tenaillon (n.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
Tenacies (pl. ) of Tenancy
Tenancy (n.) A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
Tenancy (n.) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
Tenant (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
Tenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Tenant
Tenanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tenant
Tenant (v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Tenantable (a.) Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
Tenantless (a.) Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.
Tenantry (n.) The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.
Tenantry (n.) Tenancy.
Tenant saw () See Tenon saw, under Tenon.
Tench (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.
Tend (v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
Tended (imp. & p. p.) of Tend
Tending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tend
Tend (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
Tend (v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
Tend (v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Tend (v. i.) To await; to expect.
Tend (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
Tend (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
Tendance (n.) The act of attending or waiting; attendance.
Tendance (n.) Persons in attendance; attendants.
Tendence (n.) Tendency.
Tendencies (pl. ) of Tendency
Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Tender (n.) A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
Tender (n.) A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
Tendered (imp. & p. p.) of Tender
Tendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tender
Tender (v. t.) To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
Tender (v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
Tender (n.) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
Tender (n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
Tender (n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation.
Tender (superl.) Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
Tender (superl.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Tender (superl.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
Tender (superl.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
Tender (superl.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
Tender (superl.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of.
Tender (superl.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
Tender (superl.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
Tender (superl.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject.
Tender (superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
Tender (n.) Regard; care; kind concern.
Tender (v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.
Tenderfoot (n.) A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
Tender-hearted (a.) Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.
Tender-hefted (a.) Having great tenderness; easily moved.
Tenderling (n.) One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.
Tenderling (n.) One of the first antlers of a deer.
Tenderloin (n.) A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
Tenderly (adv.) In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
Tenderness (n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Tendinous (a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
Tendinous (a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.
Tendment (n.) Attendance; care.
Tendon (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
Tendonous (a.) Tendinous.
Tendosynovitis (n.) See Tenosynovitis.
Tendrac (n.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
Tendril (a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
Tendril (a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
Tendriled (a.) Alt. of Tendrilled
Tendrilled (a.) Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.
Tendron (n.) A tendril.
Tendry (n.) A tender; an offer.
Tene (n. & v.) See 1st and 2d Teen.
Tenebrae (n.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.
Tenebricose (a.) Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.
Tenebrific (a.) Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
Tenebrificous (a.) Tenebrific.
Tenebrious (a.) Tenebrous.
Tenebrose (a.) Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
Tenebrosity (n.) The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.
Tenebrous (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
Tenement (n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Tenement (n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
Tenement (n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
Tenement (n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Tenemental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
Tenementary (a.) Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
Tenent (n.) A tenet.
Teneral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Teneriffe (n.) A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.
Tenerity (a.) Tenderness.
Tenesmic (a.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.
Tenesmus (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
Tenet (n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
Tenfold (a. & adv.) In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
Tenia (n.) See Taenia.
Tenioid (a.) See Taenoid.
Tennantite (n.) A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
Tenne (n.) A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.