Webster's Dictionary 1828

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TENDING

TEND'ING, participle present tense Having a certain direction; taking care of.TEND'ING, noun In seaman's language, a swinging round or movement of a ship upon her anchor.

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TENDINOUS

TEN'DINOUS, adjective [Latin tendines, tendons, from tendo, to stretch.]1. Pertaining to a tendon; partaking of the nature of tendons.2. Full of tendons; sinewy; as nervous and ...

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TENDMENT

TEND'MENT, noun Attendance; care.

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TENDON

TEN'DON, noun [Latin tendo; teneo, tendo.] In anatomy, a hard insensible cord or bundle of fibers, by which a muscle is attached to a bone.

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TENDRAC

TEN'DRAC, noun An animal of the hedgehog kind, found in the E. Indies.

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TENDRIL

TEN'DRIL, noun A clasp or clasper of a vine or other climbing or creeping plant; a filiform spiral shoot, that winds round another body. Tendrils or claspers are given to plants...

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TENEBRIOUS

TENE'BRIOUS, adjective [Latin tenebrosus, from tenebroe, darkness.]Dark; gloomy.

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TENEBROSITY

TENEBROS'ITY, noun Darkness; gloom.

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TENEBROUS

TEN'EBROUSTENE'BROUSNESSTEN'EMENT, noun [Low Latin tenementum, from teneo, to hold.]1. In common acceptation, a house; a building for a habitation; or an apartment in a building...

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TENEBROUSNESS

TENE'BROUSNESS

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TENEMENT

TEN'EMENT, n. [Low L. tenementum, from teneo, to hold.]1. In common acceptation, a house; a building for a habitation; or an apartment in a building, used by one family.2. A hou...

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TENEMENTAL

TENEMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to tenanted lands; that is or may be held by tenants.Tenemental lands they distributed among their tenants.

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TENEMENTARY

TENEMENT'ARY, adjective That is or may be leased; held by tenants.

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TENERITY

TENER'ITY, noun Tenderness. [Not in use.]

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TENESMUS

TENES'MUS, noun [Latin literally a straining or stretching.]A painful, ineffectual and repeated effort, or a continual and urgent desire to go to stool.

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TENET

TEN'ET, noun [Latin tenet he holds.] Any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine which a person believes or maintains as true; as the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. The tenets of c...

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TENFOLD

TEN'FOLD, adjective [ten and fold.] Ten times more.Fire kindled into tenfold rage.

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TENNANTITE

TEN'NANTITE, noun [from Tennant.] A subspecies of gray copper; a mineral of a lead color, or iron black, massive or crystallized, found in Cornwall, England.

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TENNIS

TEN'NIS, noun A play in which a ball is driven continually or kept in motion by rackets.TEN'NIS, verb transitive To drive a ball.

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TENON

TEN'ON, noun [Latin teneo, to hold.] In building and cabinet work, the end of a piece of timber, which is fitted to a mortise for insertion, or inserted, for fastening two piece...

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TENOR

TEN'OR, noun [Latin tenor from teneo, to hold.]1. Continued run or currency; whole course or strain. We understand a speaker's intention or views from the tenor of his conversat...

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TENSE

TENSE, adjective tens. [Latin tensus, from tendo, to stretch.] Stretched; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as a tense fiber.For the free passage of the sound into the ear,...

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TENSENESS

TENSENESS, noun tens'ness. The state of being tense or stretched to stiffness; stiffness; opposed to laxness; as the tenseness of a string or fiber; tenseness of the skin.

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TENSIBLE

TENS'IBLE, adjective Capable of being extended.

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TENSILE

TENS'ILE, adjective Capable of extension.

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TENSION

TEN'SION, noun [Latin tensio, tendo.]1. The act of stretching or straining; as the tension of the muscles.2. The state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; or the state ...

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TENSIVE

TENS'IVE, adjective Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness or contraction; as a tensive pain.