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.

One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling.

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 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.

Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.

Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

Made tensile.

The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.

The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension.

The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction.

A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

Tension.

To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.

A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.

Having tentacles.

Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.

Same as Suctoria, 1.

Producing or bearing tentacles.

Shaped like a tentacle.

Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.

A tentacle.

A collection of tents; an encampment.

Trial; temptation.

An essay; a trial; an experiment.

Covered with tents.

To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.

As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

The next in order after the ninth; one coming after nine others.

In a tenth manner.

A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

Attentive.

Attentively.

Stiff; stretched; strained.

One whose occupation it is to make tents.

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.

The awning or covering of a tent.

A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

To make thin; to attenuate.

Having thin or narrow leaves.

Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.

One of the Tenuirostres.

Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

One of the three surd mutes /, /, /; -- so called in relation to their respective middle letters, or medials, /, /, /, and their aspirates, /, /, /. The term is also applied to the corresponding letters and articulate elements in other languages.

The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

Thin; slender; small; minute.

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.

A large grass (Euchlaena luxurians) closely related to maize. It is native of Mexico and Central America, but is now cultivated for fodder in the Southern United States and in many warm countries. Called also Guatemala grass.

A division of a perianth.

An Indian wigwam or tent.

Act of tepefying.

To make or become tepid, or moderately warm.

Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

An igneous rock consisting essentially of plagioclase and either leucite or nephelite, or both.