The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.

In a temporal manner; secularly.

Worldliness.

The laity; secular people.

Temporarity.

In a temporary manner; for a time.

The quality or state of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.

Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.

A temporizer.

The act of temporizing.

To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.

One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complies with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.

In a temporizing or yielding manner.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the ear; as, the temporo-auricular nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the face.

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.

Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.

Time.

See Temse.

To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try.

The quality or state of being temptable; lability to temptation.

Capable of being tempted; liable to be tempted.

The act of tempting, or enticing to evil; seduction.

Having no temptation or motive; as, a temptationless sin.

Tempting.

One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil.

Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures.

A woman who entices.

A sieve.

Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness.

Intoxicated; drunken.

Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink.

The number greater by one than nine; the sum of five and five; ten units of objects.

A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.

A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball-- also, strike-->.

The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or against attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.

Same as Tenability.

The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.

Tenaciousness; obstinacy.

An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.

A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another. A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.

To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.

Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.

The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.

A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or Tinca vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.

The act of attending or waiting; attendance.

Tendency.

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value.

Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive.

Having great tenderness; easily moved.

A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.

A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.

Attendance; care.

A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

Tendinous.

See Tenosynovitis.

Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

Tender feeling or fondness; affection.

Tender feeling; fondness.

Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.

A tendril.

A tender; an offer.

See 1st and 2d Teen.

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 evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.

Tenebrific.

Tenebrous.

Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.

That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.

Capable of being leased; held by tenants.

A tenet.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.

A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.

Tenderness.

Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.

Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.

In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.

See Taenia.

A remedy to destroy tapeworms.

A remedy to expel tapeworms.

Ill health due to taenia, or tapeworms.

See Taenoid.

A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.

A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.

To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.

Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion.

The tapir.

Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.

To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.

Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.

Inflammation of the Tenonian capsule.

A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

Suture of a tendon.

Inflammation of a tendon.

Inflammation of the synovial sheath of a tendon.

A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.

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.

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.