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Temple

TEM'PLE, noun [Latin templum.]

1. A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. Among pagans, a building erected to some pretended deity, and in which the people assembled to worship. Originally, temples were open places, as the Stonehenge in England. In Rome, some of the temples were open, and called sacella; others were roofed, and called oedes. The most celebrated of the ancient pagan temples were that of Belus in Babylon, that of Vulcan at Memphis, that of Jupiter at Thebes, that of Diana at Ephesus, that of Apollo in Miletus, that of Jupiter Olympius in Athens, and that of Apollo at Delphi. The most celebrated and magnificent temple erected to the true God, was that built by Solomon in Jerusalem.

In Scripture, the tabernacle is sometimes called by this name. 1 Samuel 1:9-3.

2. A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.

Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God, enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?

3. A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21.

4. In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars. They are called the Inner and the Middle temple

TEM'PLE, noun [Latin tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.]

1. Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.

2. In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.

TEM'PLE, verb transitive To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. [Little used.]

Templet

TEM'PLET, noun A piece of timber in a building; as a templet under a girder.

Temporal

TEM'PORAL, adjective [Latin temporalis, from tempus, time.]

1. Pertaining to this life or this world or the body only; secular; as temporal concerns; temporal affairs. In this sense, it is opposed to spiritual. Let not temporal affairs or employments divert the mind from spiritual concerns, which are far more important.

In this sense also it is opposed to ecclesiastical; as temporal power, that is, secular, civil or political power; temporal courts, those which take cognizance of civil suits. temporal jurisdiction is that which regards civil and political affairs.

2. Measured or limited by time, or by this life or this state of things; having limited existence; opposed to eternal.

The things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18.

3. In grammar, relating to a tense; as a temporal augment.

4. Pertaining to the temple or temples of the head; as the temporal bone; a temporal artery or vein; temporal muscle.

Temporalities

TEMPORAL'ITIES

TEM'PORALLY, adverb With respect to time or this life only.

Temporally

TEM'PORALLY, adv. With respect to time or this life only.

Temporalness

TEM'PORALNESS, noun Worldliness. [Not used.]

Temporals

TEM'PORALS, noun Secular possessions; revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay-fees, tithes and the like. It is opposed to spiritualities.

Temporalty

TEM'PORALTY, noun The laity; secular people. [Little used.]

1. Secular possessions. [See Temporalities.]

Temporaneous

TEMPORA'NEOUS, adjective Temporary. [Little used.]

Temporarily

TEM'PORARILY, adverb For a time only; not perpetually.

Temporariness

TEM'PORARINESS, noun [from temporary.] The state of being temporary; opposed to perpetuity.

Temporary

TEM'PORARY, adjective [Latin temporarius.] Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief. There is a temporary cessation of hostilities. There is a temporary supply of provisions. In times of great danger, Rome appointed a temporary dictator.

Temporization

TEMPORIZA'TION, noun The act of temporizing.

Temporize

TEM'PORIZE, verb intransitive [Latin tempus, time.]

1. To comply with the time or occasion; to humor or yield to the current of opinion or to circumstances; a conduct that often indicates obsequiousness.

They might their grievance inwardly complain,

But outwardly they needs must temporize

2. To delay; to procrastinate.

Well, you till temporize with the hours. [Little used.]

3. To comply. [Not in use.]

Temporizer

TEM'PORIZER, noun One who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions or occasions; a trimmer.

Temporizing

TEM'PORIZING, participle present tense Complying with the time, or with the prevailing humors and opinions of men; time-serving.

Tempt

TEMPT, verb transitive [Latin tento; teneo; Gr. the primary sense is to strain, urge, press.]

1. To incite or solicit to an evil act; to entice to something wrong by presenting arguments that are plausible or convincing, or by the offer of some pleasure or apparent advantage as the inducement.

My lady Gray tempts him to this harsh extremity.

Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. James 1:13.

2. To provoke; to incite.

TEMPT not the brave and needy to despair.

3. To solicit; to draw; without the notion of evil.

Still his strength conceal'd,

Which tempted our attempt, and wrought our fall.

4. To try; to venture on; to attempt.

E'er leave be giv'n to tempt the nether skies.

5. In Scripture, to try; to prove; to put to trial for proof.

God did tempt Abraham. Genesis 22:1.

Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God. Deuteronomy 6:16.

Temptable

TEMPT'ABLE, adjective Liable to be tempted.

Temptation

TEMPTA'TION, noun The act of tempting; enticement to evil by arguments, by flattery, or by the offer of some real or apparent good.

When the devil had ended all the temptation he departed from him for a season. Luke 4:13.

1. Solicitation of the passions; enticements to evil proceeding from the prospect of pleasure or advantage.

2. The state of being tempted or enticed to evil. When by human weakness you are led into temptation resort to prayer for relief.

3. Trial.

Lead us not into temptation

4. That which is presented to the mind as an inducement to evil.

Dare to be great without a guilty crown,

View it, and lay the bright temptation down.

5. In colloquial language, an allurement to any thing indifferent, or even good.

Tempted

TEMPT'ED, participle passive Enticed to evil; provoked; tried.

Tempter

TEMPT'ER, noun One that solicits or entices to evil.

Those who are bent to do wickedly, will never want tempters to urge them on.

1. The great adversary of man; the devil. Matthew 4:3.

Tempting

TEMPT'ING, participle present tense Enticing to evil; trying.

1. adjective Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; as tempting pleasures.

Temptingly

TEMPT'INGLY, adverb In a manner to entice to evil; so as to allure.

Temptress

TEMPT'RESS, noun A female who entices.

Temsebread

TEMSEBREAD

TEM'SED-BREAD, noun Bread made of flour better sifted than common flour. [I know not where this word is used.]

Temulence

TEM'ULENCE

TEM'ULENCY, noun [Latin temulentia.] Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [Not used.]

Temulency

TEM'ULENCY, n. [L. temulentia.] Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [Not used.]

Temulent

TEM'ULENT, adjective [Latin temulentus.] Intoxicated. [Not in use.]

Temulentive

TEM'ULENTIVE, adjective Drunken; in a state of inebriation. [Not in use.]

Ten

TEN, adjective [Latin decem.]

1. Twice five; nine and one.

With twice ten sail I cross'd the Phrygian sea.

2. It is a kind of proverbial number.

There's a proud modesty in merit,

Averse to begging, and resolv'd to pay

TEN times the gift it asks.

The meaning in this use is, a great deal more, indefinitely.

Tenable

TEN'ABLE, adjective [Latin teneo, to hold. See Tenant.]

That may be held, maintained or defended against an assailant, or against attempts to take it; as a tenable fortress. The works were not deemed tenable The ground taken in the argument is not tenable

Tenacious

TENA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin tenax, from teneo, to hold.]

1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as men tenacious of their just rights. Men are usually tenacious of their opinions, as well as of their property.

2. Retentive; apt to retain long what is committed to it; as a tenacious memory.

3. Adhesive; apt to adhere to another substance; as oily, glutinous or viscous matter. Few substances are to tenacious as tar.

4. Niggardly; close fisted.

Tenaciously

TENA'CIOUSLY, adverb With a disposition to hold fast what is possessed.

1. Adhesively.

2. Obstinately; with firm adherence.

Tenaciousness

TENA'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of holding fast; unwillingness to quit, resign or let go; as a man's tenaciousness of his rights or opinions.

2. Adhesiveness; stickiness; as the tenaciousness of clay or glue.

3. Retentiveness; as the tenaciousness of memory.

Tenacity

TENAC'ITY, noun [Latin tenacitas, from teneo, to hold.]

1. Adhesiveness; that quality of bodies which makes them stick or adhere to others; glutinousness; stickiness; as the tenacity of oils, of glue, of tar, of starch and the like.

2. That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting; without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; opposed to brittleness or fragility.

Tenacy

TEN'ACY, noun Tenaciousness. [Not in use.]

Tenail

TENA'IL, noun [Latin teneo, to hold.] In fortification, an outwork consisting of two parallel sides with front, in which is a re-entering angle. It is simple or double.

Tenaillon

TEN'AILLON, noun In fortification, tenaillons are works constructed on each side of the ravelins, like the lunets, but differing in this, that one of the faces of the tenaillon is in the direction of the ravelin, whereas that of the lunet is perpendicular to it.

Tenancy

TEN'ANCY, noun [Latin tenens.] In law, a holding or possession of lands or tenements; tenure; as tenancy in fee simple; tenancy in tail; tenancy by the curtesy; tenancy at will. tenancy in common happens where there is a unity of possession merely.

Tenant

TEN'ANT, noun [Latin teneo; Gr. to strain, stretch, extend.]

1. A person holding land or other real estate under another, either by grant, lease or at will; one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements whose title is in another; as a tenant in tail; tenant in common; tenant by the curtesy; tenant in parcenary; tenant for life; tenant at will; tenant in dower.

2. One who has possession of any place; a dweller.

The happy tenant of your shade.

Tenant in capite, or tenant in chief, by the laws of England, is one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is stiled lord paramount. Such tenants however are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession.

TEN'ANT, verb transitive To hold or possess as a tenant

Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors.

Tenantable

TEN'ANTABLE, adjective Fit to be rented; in a state of repair suitable for a tenant.

Tenanted

TEN'ANTED, participle passive Held by a tenant.

Tenanting

TEN'ANTING, participle present tense Holding as a tenant.

Tenantless

TEN'ANTLESS, adjective Having no tenant; unoccupied; as a tenantless mansion.

Tenantry

TEN'ANTRY, noun The body of tenants; as the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

1. Tenancy. [Not in use.]

Tench

TENCH, noun [Latin tinca.] A fish of the genus Cyprinus, found in ponds and rivers.

Tend

TEND, verb transitive [contracted from attend, Latin attendo; ad and tendo, to stretch.]

1. To watch; to guard; to accompany as an assistant or protector.

And flaming ministers to watch and tend

Their earthly charge--

There is a pleasure in that simplicity, in beholding princes tending their flocks.

2. To hold and take care of; as, to tend a child.

3. To be attentive to.

Unsuck'd of lamb or kid that tend their play.

TEND, verb transitive [Latin tendo; teneo.]

1. To move in a certain direction.

Having overheard two gentlemen tending towards that sight--

Here Dardanus was born, and hither tends.

2. To be directed to any end or purpose; to aim at; to have or give a leaning.

The laws of our religion tend to the universal happiness of mankind.

3. To contribute. Our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.

4. [for attend.] To attend; to wait as attendants or servants.

He tends upon my father. [Colloquial.]

5. To attend as something inseparable. [Not in use.]

6. To wait; to expect. [Not in use.]

7. To swing round an anchor, as a ship.

Tendance

TEND'ANCE, noun Attendance; state of expectation.

1. Persons attending.

2. Act of waiting; attendance.

3. Care; act of tending.

[This word is entirely obsolete in all its senses. We now use attendance.]

Tended

TEND'ED, participle passive Attended; taken care of; nursed; as an infant, or a sick person.

Tendency

TEND'ENCY, noun [from tend; Latin tendens, tending.] Drift; direction or course towards any place, object, effect or result. Read such books only as have a good moral tendency Mild language has a tendency to allay irritation.

Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.

Tender

TEND'ER, noun [from tend.] One that attends or takes care of; a nurse.

1. A small vessel employed to attend a larger one for supplying her with provisions and other stores, or to convey intelligence and the like.

2. In law, 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 non-payment or non-performance; as the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note or bond with interest. To constitute a legal tender such money must be offered as the law prescribes; the offer of bank notes is not a legal tender So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.

There is also a tender of issue in pleadings, a tender of an oath, etc.

3. Any offer for acceptance. The gentleman made me a tender of his services.

4. The thing offered. This money is not a legal tender

5. Regard; kind concern. [Not in use.]

TEND'ER, verb transitive [Latin tendo.]

1. To offer in words; or to exhibit or present for acceptance.

All conditions, all minds tender down

Their service to lord Timon.

2. To hold; to esteem.

Tender yourself more dearly. [Not in use.]

3. To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, for saving a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.

TEN'DER, adjective [Latin tener; allied probably to thin, Latin tenuis.]

1. Soft; easily impressed, broken, bruised or injured; not firm or hard; as tender plants; tender flesh; tender grapes. Deuteronomy 32:2. Song of Solomon 2:13.

2. Very sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.

Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces.

3. Delicate; effeminate; not hardy or able to endure hardship.

The tender and delicate woman among you. Deuteronomy 28:54.

4. Weak; feeble; as tender age. Genesis 33:13.

5. Young and carefully educated. Proverbs 9:1.

6. Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; easily affected by the distresses of another, or anxious for another's good; as the tender kindness of the church; a tender heart.

7. Compassionate; easily excited to pity, forgiveness or favor.

The Lord is pitiful, and of tender mercy. James 5:11.

Luke 1:78.

8. Exciting kind concern.

I love Valentine;

His life's as tender to me as his soul.

9. Expressive of the softer passions; as a tender strain.

10. Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; with of. Be tender of your neighbor's reputation.

The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion.

11. Gentle; mild; unwilling to pain.

You that are so tender o'er his follies,

Will never do him good.

12. Apt to give pain; as, that is a tender subject; things that are tender and unpleasing.

13. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; pathetic; as tender expressions; tender expostulations.

Tender-Hearted

TEN'DER-HE'ARTED, adjective [tender and heart.]

1. Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence.

--When Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chronicles 13:7.

2. Very susceptible of the softer passions of love, pity or kindness.

Be ye kind one to another, and tender-hearted Ephesians 4:32.

Tender-Heartedness

TENDER-HE'ARTEDNESS, noun Susceptibility of the softer passions.

Tendered

TEND'ERED, participle passive Offered for acceptance.

Tendering

TEND'ERING, participle present tense Offering for acceptance.

Tenderling

TEN'DERLING, noun A fondling; one made tender by too much kindness.

1. The first horns of a deer.

Tenderloin

TEN'DERLOIN, noun A tender part of flesh in the hind quarter of beef.

Tenderly

TEN'DERLY, adverb With tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain.

Brutus tenderly reproves.

1. Kindly; with pity or affection.

Tenderness

TEN'DERNESS, noun The state of being tender or easily broken, bruised or injured; softness; brittleness; as the tenderness of a thread; the tenderness of flesh.

1. The state of being easily hurt; soreness; as the tenderness of flesh when bruised or inflamed.

2. Susceptibility of the softer passions; sensibility.

Well we know your tenderness of heart.

3. Kind attention; anxiety for the good of another, or to save him from pain.

4. Scrupulousness; caution; extreme care or concern not to give or to commit offense; as tenderness of conscience.

5. Cautious care to preserve or not to injure; as a tenderness of reputation.

6. Softness of expression; pathos.

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.

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 tendinous parts.

Tendment

TEND'MENT, noun Attendance; care.

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.

Tendrac

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

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 that have weak stalks.

They are also given to creeping vines, which require support on the earth.

TEN'DRIL, adjective Clasping; climbing; as a tendril

Tenebrious

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

Dark; gloomy.

Tenebrosity

TENEBROS'ITY, noun Darkness; gloom.

Tenebrous

TEN'EBROUS

TENE'BROUSNESS

TEN'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, used by one family.

2. A house or lands depending on a manor; or a fee farm depending on a superior.

3. In law, any species of permanent property that may be held, as land, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, etc. These are called free or frank tenements.

The thing held is a tenement, and the possessor of it a tenant, and the manner of possession is called tenure.

Tenebrousness

TENE'BROUSNESS

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 house or lands depending on a manor; or a fee farm depending on a superior.3. In law, any species of permanent property that may be held, as land, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, &c. These are called free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, and the possessor of it a tenant, and the manner of possession is called tenure.

Tenemental

TENEMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to tenanted lands; that is or may be held by tenants.

Tenemental lands they distributed among their tenants.

Tenementary

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

Tenerity

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

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.

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 christians are adopted from the Scriptures; but different interpretations give rise to a great diversity of tenets.

Tenfold

TEN'FOLD, adjective [ten and fold.] Ten times more.

Fire kindled into tenfold rage.

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.

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.

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 pieces of timber together. The form of a tenon is various, as square, dovetailed, etc.

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 conversation, that is, from the general course of his ideas, or general purport of his speech.

Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men?

2. Stamp; character. The conversation was of the same tenor as that of the preceding day.

This success would look like chance, if it were not perpetual and always of the same tenor

3. Sense contained; purport; substance; general course or drift; as close attention to the tenor of the discourse. Warrants are to be executed according to their form and tenor

Bid me tear the bond.

--When it is paid according to the tenor

4. In music, the natural pitch of a man's voice in singing; hence, the part of a tune adapted to a man's voice, the second of the four parts, reckoning from the base; and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxiliary.

5. The persons who sing the tenor or the instrument that plays it.

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, it is requisite that the tympanum be tense

TENSE, noun tens. [Latin tempus.] In grammar, time, or a particular form of a verb, or a combination of words, used to express the time of action, or of that which is affirmed; or tense is an inflection of verbs by which they are made to signify or distinguish the time of actions or events.

The primary simple tenses are three; those which express time past, present, and future; but these admit of modifications, which differ in different languages. The English language is rich in tenses, beyond any other language in Europe.

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.

Tensible

TENS'IBLE, adjective Capable of being extended.

Tensile

TENS'ILE, adjective Capable of extension.

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 of being bent or strained; as, different degrees of tension in chords give different sounds; the greater the tension the more acute the sound.

3. Distension.

Tensive

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

Tensor

TENS'OR, noun In anatomy, a muscle that extends or stretches a part.

Tensure

TENSURE, the same as tension, and not used.

Tent

TENT, noun [Latin tentorium, from tendo, to stretch.]

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of canvas or other coarse cloth, stretched and sustained by poles; used for sheltering persons from the weather, particularly soldiers in camp. The wandering Arabs and Tartars lodge in tents. The Israelites lodged in tents forty years, while they were in the desert.

2. In surgery, a roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the healing of an opening from which matter or other fluid is discharged.

TENT, noun [Latin tinctus.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

TENT, verb intransitive To lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle.

TENT, verb transitive To probe; to search as with a tent; as, to tent a wound.

I'll tent him to the quick.

1. To keep open with a tent

Tentacle

TEN'TACLE, noun [Latin tentacula.] A filiform process or organ, simple or branched, on the bodies of various animals of the Linnean class Vermes, and of Cuvier's Mollusca, Annelides, Echinodermata, Actinia, Medusae, Polypi, etc. either an organ of feeling, prehension or motion, sometimes round the mouth, sometimes on other parts of the body.

Tentage

TENT'AGE, noun An encampment. [Unusual.]

Tentation

TENTA'TION, noun [Latin tentatio; tento, to try.]

Trial; temptation. [Little used.]

Tentative

TENT'ATIVE, adjective Trying; essaying.

TENT'ATIVE, noun An essay; trial.

Tented

TENT'ED, adjective Covered or furnished with tents; as soldiers.

1. Covered with tents; as a tented field.

Tenter

TENT'ER, noun [Latin tendo, tentus, to stretch.]

A hook for stretching cloth on a frame.

To be on the tenters, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness or suspense.

TENT'ER, verb transitive To hang or stretch on tenters.

TENT'ER, verb intransitive To admit extension.

Woolen cloths will tenter

Tenter-Ground

TEN'TER-GROUND, noun Ground on which tenters are erected.

Tentered

TENT'ERED, participle passive Stretched or hung on tenters.

Tentering

TEN'TERING, participle present tense Stretching or hanging on tenters.

Tenth

TENTH, adjective [from ten.] The ordinal of ten; the first after the ninth.

TENTH, noun The tenth part.

1. Tithe; the tenth part of annual produce or increase. The tenth of income is payable to the clergy in England, as it was to the priests among the Israelites.

2. In music, the octave of the third; an interval comprehending nine conjoint degrees, or ten sounds, diatonically divided.

Tenthly

TENTH'LY, adverb In the tenth place.

Tentiginous

TENTIG'INOUS, adjective [Latin tentigo, a stretching.]

Stiff; stretched. [Not in use.]

Tentory

TENT'ORY, noun [Latin tentorium.] The awning of a tent.

Tentwort

TENT'WORT, noun [tent and wort.] A plant of the genus Asplenium.

Tenuifolious

TENUIFO'LIOUS, adjective [Latin tenuis and folium.]

Having thin or narrow leaves.

Tenuity

TENU'ITY, noun [Latin tenuitas, from tenuis, thin. See Thin.]

1. Thinness, smallness in diameter; exility; thinness, applied to a broad substance, and slenderness, applied to one that is long; as the tenuity of paper or of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair or filament.

2. Rarity; rareness; thinness; as of a fluid; as the tenuity of the air in the higher regions of the atmosphere; the tenuity of the blood.

3. Poverty. [Not in use.]

Tenuous

TEN'UOUS, adjective [Latin tenuis.] Thin; small; minute.

1. Rare.

Tenure

TEN'URE, noun [Latin teneo, to hold.]

1. A holding. In English law, the manner of holding lands and tenements of a superior. All the species of ancient tenures may be reduced to four, three of which subsist to this day. 1. tenure by knight service, which was the most honorable. This is now abolished. 2. tenure in free socage, or by a certain and determinate service, which is either free and honorable, or villain and base. 3. tenure by copy of court roll, or copyhold tenure 4. tenure in ancient demain. There was also tenure in frankalmoign, or free alms. The tenure in free and common socage has absorbed most of the others.

In the United States, almost all lands are held in fee simple; not of a superior, but the whole right and title to the property being vested in the owner.

Tenure in general, then, is the particular manner of holding real estate, as by exclusive title or ownership, by fee simple, by fee tail, by curtesy, in dower, by copyhold, by lease, at will, etc.

2. The consideration, condition or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

3. Manner of holding in general. In absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure

Tepefaction

TEPEFAC'TION, noun [Latin tepefacio; tepidus, warm, and facio, to make.]

The act or operation of warming, making tepid or moderately warm.

Tepefy

TEP'EFY, verb transitive [Latin tepefacio.] To make moderately warm.

TEP'EFY, verb intransitive To become moderately warm.

Tepid

TEP'ID, adjective [Latin tepidus, form tepeo, to be warm.]

Moderately warm; lukewarm; as a tepid bath; tepid rays; tepid vapors.

Tepid mineral waters, are such as have less sensible cold than common water.

Tepidness

TEP'IDNESS, noun Moderate warmth; lukewarmness.

Tepor

TE'POR, noun [Latin] Gentle heat; moderate warmth.

Ter-Tenant

TER-TEN'ANT , noun One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.

Tera

COLEOPTER, TERA, noun The coleopters, in Linnes system of entomology, are an order of insects, having crustaceous elytra or shells, which shut and form a longitudinal suture along the back, as the beetle.

Teraphim

TER'APHIM, noun [Heb.] Household deities or images.

Teratology

TERATOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a prodigy, and discourse.]

Bombast in language; affectation of sublimity. [Not used.]

Terce

TERCE, noun ters. A cask whose contents are 42 gallons, the third of a pipe or butt.

Terce-Major

TERCE-MAJOR, noun A sequence of the three best cards.

Tercel

TER'CEL, noun The male of the common falcon. [Falco Peregrinus.]

Terebinth

TER'EBINTH, noun The turpentine tree.

Terebinthinate

TEREBIN'THINATE, adjective Terebinthine; impregnated with the qualities of turpentine.

Terebinthine

TEREBIN'THINE, adjective [Latin terebinthinus, from terebinthina, turpentine.] Pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

Terebrate

TER'EBRATE, verb transitive [Latin terebro, tero.] To bore; to perforate with a gimlet. [Little used.]

Terebration

TEREBRA'TION, noun The act of boring. [Little used.]

Terebratulite

TEREBRAT'ULITE, noun Fossil terebratula, a kind of shell.

Teredo

TERE'DO, noun [Latin from tero, to wear.] A worm that bores and penetrates the bottom of ships; or rather a genus of worms, so called.

Terek

TER'EK, noun A water fowl with long legs.

Teret

TER'ET

TERE'TE, adjective [Latin teres.] Round and tapering; columnar; as the stem of a plant.

Terete

TERE'TE, a. [L. teres.] Round and tapering; columnar; as the stem of a plant.

Tergeminal

TERGEM'INAL

TERGEM'INATE, adjective [Latin tergeminus.] Thrice double; as a tergeminate leaf.

Tergeminate

TERGEM'INATE, a. [L. tergeminus.] Thrice double; as a tergeminate leaf.

Tergeminous

TERGEM'INOUS, adjective [supra.] Threefold.

Tergifetous

TERGIF'ETOUS, adjective tergifetous plants, are such as bear their seeds on the back of their leaves, as ferns.

Tergiversate

TER'GIVERSATE, verb intransitive [Latin tergum, the back, and verto, to turn.]

To shift; to practice evasion. [Little used.]

Tergiversation

TERGIVERSA'TION, noun A shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

Writing is to be preferred before verbal conferences, as being more free from passion and tergiversation

1. Change; fickleness of conduct.

The colonel, after all his tergiversation lost his life in the king's service.

Term

TERM, noun [Latin terminus, a limit or boundary.]

1. A limit; a bound or boundary; the extremity of any thing; that which limits its extent.

Corruption is a reciprocal to generation, and they two are as nature's two terms or boundaries.

2. The time for which any thing lasts; any limited time; as the term of five years; the term of life.

3. In geometry, a point or line that limits. A line is the term of a superficies, and a superficies is the term of a solid.

4. In law, the limitation of an estate; or rather the whole time or duration of an estate; as a lease for the term of life, for the term of three lives, for the term of twenty one years.

5. In law, the time in which a court is held or open for the trial of causes. In England, there are four terms in the year; Hilary term from January 23d to February 12th; Easter term from Wednesday, fortnight after Easter, to the Monday next after Ascension day; Trinity term from Friday next after Trinity Sunday to the Wednesday, fortnight after; and Michaelmas term from November 6th to the 28th. These terms are observed by the courts of king's bench, the common pleas and exchequer, but not by the parliament, the chancery or by inferior courts. The rest of the year is called vacation. In the United States, the terms to be observed by the tribunals of justice, are prescribed by the statutes of congress and of the several states.

6. In universities and colleges, the time during which instruction is regularly given to students, who are obliged by the statutes and laws of the institution to attend to the recitations, lectures and other exercises.

7. In grammar, a word or expression; that which fixes or determines ideas.

In painting, the greatest beauties cannot be always expressed for want of terms.

8. In the arts, a word or expression that denotes something peculiar to an art; as a technical term

9. In logic, a syllogism consists of three terms, the major, the minor, and the middle. The predicate of the conclusion is called the major term because it is the most general, and the subject of the conclusion is called the minor term because it is less general. These are called the extremes; and the third term introduced as a common measure between them, is called the mean or middle term Thus in the following syllogism.

Every vegetable is combustible;

Every tree is vegetable;

Therefore every tree is combustible.

Combustible is the predicate of the conclusion, or the major term; every tree is the minor term; vegetable is the middle term

10. In architecture, a kind of statues or columns adorned on the top with the figure of a head, either of a man, woman or satyr. Terms are sometimes used as consoles, and sustain entablatures; and sometimes as statues to adorn gardens.

11. Among the ancients, terms, termini miliares, were the heads of certain divinities placed on square land-marks of stone, to mark the several stadia on roads. These were dedicated to Mercury, who was supposed to preside over highways.

12. In algebra, a member of a compound quantity; as a, in a+b; or ab, in ab+cd.

13. Among physicians, the monthly courses of females are called terms.

14. In contracts, terms, in the plural, are conditions; propositions stated or promises made, which when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties. A engages to build a house for B for a specific sum of money, in a given time; these are his terms. When B promises to give to A that sum for building the house, he has agreed to the terms; the contract is completed and binding upon both parties.

TERMs of proportion, in mathematics, are such numbers, letters or quantities as are compared one with another.

To make terms, to come to an agreement.

To come to terms, to agree; to come to an agreement.

To bring to terms, to reduce to submission or to conditions.

TERM, verb transitive To name; to call; to denominate.

Men term what is beyond the limits of the universe, imaginary space.

Termagancy

TER'MAGANCY, noun [from termagant.] Turbulence; tumultuousness; as a violent termagancy of temper.

Termagant

TER'MAGANT, adjective Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous or furious; quarrelsome; scolding.

The eldest was a termagant imperious, prodigal, profligate wench.

TER'MAGANT, noun A boisterous, brawling, turbulent woman. It seems in Shakespeare to have been used of men. In ancient farces and puppet-shows, termagant was a vociferous, tumultuous deity.

She threw his periwig into the fire. Well, said he, thou are a brave termagant

The sprites of fiery termagants in flame--

Termed

TERM'ED, participle passive Called; denominated.

Termer

TERM'ER, noun One who travels to attend a court term.

TERM'ER

Terminable

TERM'INABLE, adjective [from term.] That may be bounded; limitable.

Terminal

TERM'INAL, adjective [from Latin terminus.] In botany, growing at the end of a branch or stem; terminating; as a terminal scape, flower or spike.

1. Forming the extremity; as a terminal edge.

Terminate

TERM'INATE, verb transitive [termino; terminus.]

1. To bound; to limit; to set the extreme point or side of a thing; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

2. To end; to put an end to; as, to terminate a controversy.

TERM'INATE, verb intransitive To be limited; to end; to come to the furthest point in space; as, a line terminates at the equator; the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

1. To end; to close; to come to a limit in time. The session of congress, every second year, must terminate on the third of March.

The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on this side heaven.

Terminated

TERM'INATED, participle passive Limited; bounded; ended.

Terminating

TERM'INATING, participle present tense Limiting; ending; concluding.

Termination

TERMINA'TION, noun The act of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding.

1. Bound; limit in space or extent; as the termination of a line.

2. End in time or existence; as the termination of the year or of life; the termination of happiness.

3. In grammar, the end or ending of a word; the syllable or letter that ends a word. Words have different terminations to express number, time and sex.

4. End; conclusion; result.

5. Last purpose.

6. Word; term. [Not in use.]

Terminational

TERMINA'TIONAL, adjective Forming the end or concluding syllable.

Terminative

TERM'INATIVE, adjective Directing termination.

Terminatively

TERM'INATIVELY, adverb Absolutely; so as not to respect any thing else.

Terminator

TERM'INATOR, noun In astronomy, a name sometimes given to the circle of illumination, form its property of terminating the boundaries of light and darkness.

Terminer

TERM'INER, noun A determining; as in oyer and terminer

Terming

TERM'ING, participle present tense Calling; denominating.

Terminist

TERM'INIST, noun In ecclesiastical history, a sect of christians who maintain that God has fixed a certain term for the probation of particular persons, during which time they have the offer of grace, but after which God no longer wills their salvation.

Terminology

TERMINOL'OGY, noun [Latin terminus.] The doctrine of terms; a treatise on terms.

1. In natural history, that branch of the science which explains all the terms used in the description of natural objects.

Terminthus

TERMIN'THUS, noun [Gr. a pine nut.] In surgery, a large painful tumor on the skin, thought to resemble a pine nut.

Termless

TERM'LESS, adjective Unlimited; boundless; as termless joys.

Termly

TERM'LY, adjective Occurring every term; as a termly fee.

TERM'LY, adverb Term by term; every term; as a fee termly given.

Termor

TERM'OR, noun One who has an estate for a term of years of life.

TERM'-FEE, noun Among lawyers, a fee or certain sum charged to a suitor for each term his cause is in court.

Tern

TERN, noun [Latin sterna.] A common name of certain aquatic fowls of the genus Sterna; as the great tern or sea swallow, (S. hirundo, )

the black tern the lesser tern or hooded tern and the foolish tern or noddy, (S. stolida.) The brown tern or brown gull, (S. obscura, ) is considered as the young of the pewit gull or sea-crow, before molting.

TERN, adjective [Latin ternus.] Threefold; consisting of three.

TERN leaves, in threes, or three by three; expressing the number of leaves in each whorl or set.

TERN peduncles, three growing together from the same axil.

TERN flowers, growing three and three together.

Ternary

TERN'ARY, adjective [Latin ternarius, of three.] Proceeding by threes; consisting of three.

The ternary number, in antiquity, was esteemed a symbol of perfection and held in great veneration.

TERN'ARY

Ternate

TERN'ATE, adjective [Latin ternus, terni.] In botany, a ternate leaf, is one that has three leaflets on a petiole, as in trefoil, strawberry, bramble, etc. There are leaves also biternate and triternate, having three ternate or three biternate leaflets.

These leaves must not be confounded with folia terna, which are leaves that grow three together in a whorl, on a stem or branch.

Ternate bat, a species of bat of a large kind, found in the isle ternate and other East India isles. [See Vampyre.]

Terra Japonica, catechu, so called.

Terra Lemnia, a species of red bolar earth.

Terra ponderosa, baryte; heavy spar.

Sienna, a brown bole or ocher from Sienna in Italy.

Ternion

TERN'ION, noun [Latin ternarius, ternio.] The number three.

Terrace

TER'RACE, noun [Latin terra, the earth.]

1. In gardening, a raised bank of earth with sloping sides, laid with turf, and graveled on the top for a walk.

2. A balcony or open gallery.

3. The flat roof of a house. All the buildings of the oriental nations are covered with terraces, where people walk or sleep.

TER'RACE, verb transitive To form in to a terrace

1. To open to the air and light.