Tennis (n.) A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
Tennu (n.) The tapir.
Ten-o'clock (n.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.
Tenon (n.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
Tenon (v. t.) To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
Tenonian (a.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
Tenor (n.) A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Tenor (n.) That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
Tenor (n.) Stamp; character; nature.
Tenor (n.) 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.
Tenor (n.) 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.
Tenor (n.) A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
Tenosynovitis (n.) Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
Tenotome (n.) A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
Tenotomy (n.) The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.
Tenpenny (a.) Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.
Tenpenny (a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.
Tenpins (n.) A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.
Ten-pounder (n.) A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
Tenrec (n.) A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.
Tense (n.) One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.
Tense (a.) Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.
Tensibility (n.) The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
Tensible (a.) Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.
Tensile (a.) Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.
Tensile (a.) Capable of extension; ductile; tensible.
Tensiled (a.) Made tensile.
Tensility (n.) The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.
Tension (a.) The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
Tension (a.) Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
Tension (a.) The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.
Tension (a.) The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight.
Tension (a.) A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to give the stitch the required degree of tightness.
Tension (a.) Expansive force; the force with which the particles of a body, as a gas, tend to recede from each other and occupy a larger space; elastic force; elasticity; as, the tension of vapor; the tension of air.
Tension (a.) The quality in consequence of which an electric charge tends to discharge itself, as into the air by a spark, or to pass from a body of greater to one of less electrical potential. It varies as the quantity of electricity upon a given area.
Tensioned (a.) Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension.
Tensity (n.) The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Tensive (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.
Tensor (n.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
Tensor (n.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.
Ten-strike (n.) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Ten-strike (n.) Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
Tensure (n.) Tension.
Tent (n.) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
Tent (n.) Attention; regard, care.
Tent (n.) Intention; design.
Tent (v. t.) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
Tent (v. t.) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.
Tent (n.) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
Tent (n.) A probe for searching a wound.
Tent (n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
Tent (n.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tented (imp. & p. p.) of Tent
Tenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tent
Tent (v. i.) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
Tentacle (n.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.
Tentacled (a.) Having tentacles.
Tentacular (a.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.
Tentaculata (n. pl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.
Tentaculate (a.) Alt. of Tentaculated
Tentaculated (a.) Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
Tentaculifera (n. pl.) Same as Suctoria, 1.
Tentaculiferous (a.) Producing or bearing tentacles.
Tentaculiform (a.) Shaped like a tentacle.
Tentaculite (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.
Tentaculocyst (n.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.
Tentacula (pl. ) of Tentaculum
Tentaculum (n.) A tentacle.
Tentaculum (n.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.
Tentage (n.) A collection of tents; an encampment.
Tentation (n.) Trial; temptation.
Tentation (n.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments.
Tentative (a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Tentative (n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Tented (a.) Covered with tents.
Tenter (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
Tenter (n.) A kind of governor.
Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
Tentered (imp. & p. p.) of Tenter
Tentering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tenter
Tenter (v. i.) To admit extension.
Tenter (v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.
Tentfuls (pl. ) of Tentful
Tentful (n.) As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.
Tenth (a.) Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.
Tenth (a.) Constituting or being one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
Tenth (n.) The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.
Tenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided.
Tenth (n.) The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.
Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
Tenth (n.) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
Tenth (n.) The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.
Tenthly (adv.) In a tenth manner.
Tenthmeter (n.) Alt. of Tenthmetre
Tenthmetre (n.) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.
Tenthredinides (n. pl.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.
Tentif (a.) Attentive.
Tentifly (adv.) Attentively.
Tentiginous (a.) Stiff; stretched; strained.