Webster's Dictionary 1913

1243

Tendril (2)

Ten″dril (?), a. Clasping; climbing as a tendril. Dyer.

1244

Tendriled

{ Ten″driled, Ten″drilled } (?), a.(Bot.) Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. “The thousand tendriled vine.” Southey.

1245

Tendron

Ten″dron (?), n. [F. Cf. Tendril.] A tendril. Holland.

1246

Tendry

Ten″dry (?), n. A tender; an offer. Heylin.

1247

Tene

Tene (?), n. & v. See 1st and 2d Teen.

1248

Tenebræ

‖Ten″e‐bræ (?), n.(R. C. Ch.) 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 eve...

1249

Tenebricose

Te‐neb″ri‐cose′ (?), a. [L. tenebricosus.] Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.

1250

Tenebrific

Ten′e‐brif″ic (?), a. [L. tenebrae darkness + facere to make.] Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.It lightens, it brightens,The tenebrific scene. Burns.Where lightLay f...

1251

Tenebrificous

Ten′e‐brif″ic‐ous (?), a. Tenebrific.Authors who are tenebrificous stars. Addison.

1252

Tenebrious

Te‐ne″bri‐ous (?), a. Tenebrous. Young.

1253

Tenebrose

Ten″e‐brose′ (?), a. Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

1254

Tenebrosity

Ten′e‐bros″i‐ty (?), n. The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.

1255

Tenebrous

Ten″e‐brous (?), a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. ténébreux.] Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. — Ten″e‐brous‐ness, n.The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (156...

1256

Tenement

Ten″e‐ment (?), n. [OF. tenement a holding, a fief, F. tènement, LL. tenementum, fr. L. tenere to hold. See Tenant.] 1. (Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; pro...

1257

Tenemental

Ten′e‐men″tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.

1258

Tenementary

Ten′e‐men″ta‐ry (?), a. Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.

1259

Tenent

Ten″ent (?), n. [L. tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of tenere.] A tenet. Bp. Sanderson.

1260

Teneral

Ten″er‐al (?), a. [L. tener, -eris, tender, delicate.] (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from th...

1261

Teneriffe

Ten′er‐iffe″ (?), n. A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; — called also Vidonia.

1262

Tenerity

Te‐ner″i‐ty (?), n. [L. teneritas. See Tender, a.] Tenderness. Ainsworth.

1263

Tenesmic

Te‐nes″mic (?), a.(Med.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

1264

Tenesmus

‖Te‐nes″mus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �, fr. � to stretch: cf. L. tenesmos.] (Med.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, altho...

1265

Tenet

Ten″et (?), n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.] Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenet...

1266

Tenfold

Ten″fold′ (?), a. & adv. In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.The grisly Terror... grew tenfoldMore dreadful and deform. Milton.

1267

Tenia

‖Te″ni‐a (?), n. See Tænia.

1268

Tenioid

Te″ni‐oid (?), a. See Tænoid.

1269

Tennantite

Ten″nant‐ite (?), n. [Named after Smithson Tennant, an English chemist.] (Min.) A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of ar...