Webster's Dictionary 1913

1324

Tentation

Ten‐ta″tion (?), n. [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation.] 1. Trial; temptation. Sir T. Browne.2. (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experi...

1325

Tentative

Ten‐ta″tive (?), a. [L. tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif. See Tempt.] Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. “A slow, tentative manner.” Carlyle. — Ten‐ta...

1326

Tentative (2)

Ten‐ta″tive, n. [Cf. F. tentative.] An essay; a trial; an experiment. Berkley.

1327

Tented

Tent″ed (?), a. Covered with tents.

1328

Tenter

Ten″ter (?), n. 1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.2. (Mach.) A kind of governor.

1329

Tenter (2)

Ten″ter, n. [OE. tenture, tentoure, OF. tenture a stretching, spreading, F. tenture hangings, tapestry, from L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move.] A machine or fram...

1330

Tenter (3)

Ten″ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Tentered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tentering.] To admit extension.Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. Bacon.

1331

Tenter (4)

Ten″ter, v. t. To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

1332

Tentful

Tent″ful (?), n.; pl.Tentfuls (�). As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

1333

Tenth

Tenth (?), a. [From Ten: cf. OE. tethe, AS. teó�a. See Ten, and cf. Tithe.] 1. Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.2. Constituting or being one of ten equal ...

1334

Tenth (2)

Tenth (?), n. 1. The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.2. The quotient of a unit divided by ten; one of ten equal parts into which anything is divided....

1335

Tenthly

Tenth″ly, adv. In a tenth manner.

1336

Tenthmeter

{ Tenth″me′ter, Tenth″me′tre } (?), n.(Physics) A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a milli...

1337

Tenthredinides

‖Ten′thre‐din″i‐des (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

1338

Tentif

Ten″tif (?), a. Attentive. Chaucer.

1339

Tentifly

Ten″tif‐ly, adv. Attentively. Chaucer.

1340

Tentiginous

Ten‐tig″i‐nous (?), a. [L. tentigo, -inis, a tension, lecherousness, fr. tendere, tentum, to stretch.] 1. Stiff; stretched; strained. Johnson.2. Lustful, or pertaining to lust. ...

1341

Tentmaker

Tent″mak′er (?), n. One whose occupation it is to make tents. Acts xviii. 3.

1342

Tentorium

‖Ten‐to″ri‐um (?), n.(Anat.) A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

1343

Tentory

Tent″o‐ry (?), n. [L. tentorium a tent.] The awning or covering of a tent. Evelyn.

1344

Tentwort

Tent″wort′ (?), n.(Bot.) A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

1345

Tenuate

Ten″u‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tenuated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tenuating.] [L. tenuatus, p. p. of tenuare to make thin, fr. tenuis thin. See Tenuous.] To make thin; to attenuate.

1346

Tenuifolious

Ten′u‐i‐fo″li‐ous (?), a. [L. tenuis thin + folium a leaf.] (Bot.) Having thin or narrow leaves.

1347

Tenuious

Te‐nu″i‐ous (?), a. [See Tenuous.] Rare or subtile; tenuous; — opposed to dense. Glanvill.

1348

Tenuiroster

Ten′u‐i‐ros″ter (?), n.; pl.Tenuirosters (#). [NL., fr. L. tenuis thin + rostrum a beak.] (Zoöl.) One of the Tenuirostres.

1349

Tenuirostral

Ten′u‐i‐ros″tral (?), a.(Zoöl.) Thin-billed; — applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

1350

Tenuirostres

‖Ten′u‐i‐ros″tres (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.