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.

A silicate of manganese of an ash-gray color.

A genus of leguminous shrubby plants and herbs, mostly found in tropical countries, a few herbaceous species being North American. The foliage is often ashy-pubescent, whence the name.

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

The quality or state of being tepid; moderate warmth; lukewarmness; tepidness.

Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness.

An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district of Tequila, Mexico.

See Terre-tenant.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic series, obtained by the distillation of terpenylic acid, as an only substance having a peculiar cheesy odor.

See Teraphim.

See Terrapin.

Wonderful; ominous; prodigious.

The formation of monsters.

Resembling a monster; abnormal; of a pathological growth, exceedingly complex or highly organized.

Of or pertaining to teratology; as, teratological changes.

That branch of biological science which treats of monstrosities, malformations, or deviations from the normal type of structure, either in plants or animals.

A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.

A rare metallic element, found in certain minerals, as gadolinite and samarskite, with other rare earths such as ytterbium. Symbol Tb. Atomic number 65. Atomic weight 158.925.

See Tierce.

See Tiercel. Called also tarsel, tassel.

A male hawk or eagle; a tiercelet.

A small male hawk.

Including, or relating to, an interval of three hundred years. The three hundredth anniversary of any event; also, a celebration of such an anniversary.

A triplet.

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

A salt of terebic acid.

A polymeric modification of terpene, obtained as a white crystalline camphorlike substance; -- called also camphene. By extension, any one of a group of related substances.

Oil of turpentine. See Turpentine.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, terbenthene (oil of turpentine); specifically, designating an acid, C7H10O4, obtained by the oxidation of terbenthene with nitric acid, as a white crystalline substance.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.

The turpentine tree.

Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.

Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

Of or pertaining to turpentine; consisting of turpentine, or partaking of its qualities.

A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.

Boring, or adapted for boring; -- said of certain Hymenoptera, as the sawflies.

A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

To perforate; to bore; to pierce.

Boring; perforating; -- applied to molluskas which form holes in rocks, wood, etc.

The act of terebrating, or boring.

A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.

Any species of Terebratula or allied genera. Used also adjectively.

Having the general form of a terebratula shell.

A borer; the teredo.

A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in Appendix.

A sandpiper (Terekia cinerea) of the Old World, breeding in the far north of eastern Europe and Asia and migrating to South Africa and Australia. It frequents rivers.

A salt of terephthalic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid of the aromatic series, metameric with phthalic acid, and obtained, as a tasteless white crystalline powder, by the oxidation of oil of turpentine; -- called also paraphthalic acid. Cf. Phthalic.

Round; terete.

Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

Rounded; as, the teretial tracts in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain of some fishes.

Terete.

Of or pertaining to back, or tergum. See Dorsal.

Showing the back; as, the eagle tergant.

Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Threefold; thrice-paired.

Carrying or bearing upon the back.

The dorsal portion of an arthromere or somite of an articulate animal. See Illust. under Coleoptera.

To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.

The back of an animal. The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal. One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

A small yellow singing bird, with an ash-colored head; the European siskin. Called also tarin.

To apply a term to; to name; to call; to denominate.

The terminal lamina, or thin ventral part, of the anterior wall of the third ventricle of the brain.

The quality or state of being termagant; turbulence; tumultuousness; as, a violent termagancy of temper.

Tumultuous; turbulent; boisterous; furious; quarrelsome; scolding.

Any nest or dwelling of termes, or white ants.

Same as Termatarium.