TEN 



TEN 



point of iiifi'vtion. Its upper atvachnicnt is by means of a 

 tendon, from which the fibres run to the fafcia. 



It will bend the thigh on the pelvis ; or carry it outwards ; 

 or rotate it inwards. When tlie thigh is fixed, it will incline 

 the pelvis on that limb. 



TENSTADT, in Geography, a town of Saxony, in 

 Thuringia ; 1 1 miles N.W. of Erfurt. 



TENT, Tabernacle, a pavilion, or portable lodge, 

 under which to fliclter, in the open field, from the injuries 

 of the weather. See Tabkkn'acle. 



The word is formed from tiie Latin, tentorium, of lendo, 1 

 Jlretcli ; in regard tents are ufually made of canvas, flretched 

 out, and fullained by poles, with cords and pegs. 



Armies encamp under tents : thefe are made of canvas, 

 and are of various fizes. A captain's tent and marquee is 

 jrenerally lo^ feet broad, 14 deep, and 9 high ; thofe of the 

 tubalterns are a foot lefs ; the major's and lieutenant-colonel's 

 a foot larger ; and the colonel's two feet larger. The fubal- 

 terns of foot lie two in a tent, and thofe of the horfe one. 

 The tents of private men are 6^ feet f(|uare, and 5 feet 

 high, and accommodate five foldiers. The tents for the 

 horfe are 7 feet broad, and 9 feet deep ; they hold five men, 

 and their horfe -accoutrements. 



Tents, Bell, are fo called from their refcmblance to a bell, 

 and ferse to (lielter the fire-arms from rain. 



7^0 pitch the tents, is to fix them up ready for habitation, 

 by the afiiftance of a ridge-pole, two ftandards, and a number 

 of tent-pins. 



Moft of the Tartars and Arabs are wandering people, that 

 always lodge under tents. 



The Hebrews lodged forty years under tents in the de- 

 farts ; which gave occafion to the Scenopegia, or feaft of 

 tabernacles. 



Tent, JDarL See Dark. 



Tent, in Surgery, fignifies a roll of lint or linen, for 

 preventing the healing of openings, from which matter, or 

 fome other fluid, makes its efcape. Tents are alfo employed 

 for dilating openings. There ai-e fome tents which are 

 made of fponge that has been comprefTed into as fmall a 

 compafs as poflible, while filled with fluid wax, and then 

 allowed to become cold. Thefe are called fpongc-tenls, and, 

 on becoming warm, after being introduced into parts, they 

 have the property of fwelling in a remarkable degree. We 

 ihall only fay further upon this fubjeft, that, upon the 

 whole, tents are not fo much employed in modern as in an- 

 cient praftice ; and there is no doubt, that, imlefs their ufe 

 be guided by moderation and judgment, they may do con- 

 fiderable raifchief. 



TENTAMOODy,in Geography, ztown of HindooRan, 

 in thecircar of Rajamundry ; 35 miles S.E. of Rajamundry. 



TENTATIVE is fometimes ufed adjedtively : thus we 

 fay, a tentative method, meaning a kind of unartful or in- 

 direft method, which only proceeds by trying. 



Tentative is alfo ufed fubftantively, tar an eflay or 

 effort, by which we try our ftrength, or found an affair. Sec. 

 to fee whether or no it will fiicceed. 



In the French univerfities, tentative is the firft thefis, or 

 aft, which a ftudent in the theology-fchool holds, to fliew 

 his capacity : if he anfwers well in this, the degree of 

 bachelor is conferred on him. 



TEN-TCHEOU-FOU, or Ten-choo-foo, in Geo- 

 graphy, a city of China, of the firft clafs, in the province 

 of Chang-tong, having under its jurifdiftion one city of the 

 fecond clafs, and feven of the third. It is fituated on a 

 rifmg ground, and fortified by a ftrong wall round it, and 

 defended by a numerous garrifon. The fortifications of this 

 city include a large fpace not occupied by buildings ; and 



when it was laid out, it mud cither have been cxpeilcd that 

 it would incrcafe in houfcs to a greater number than that of 

 thofe who now occupy it, or the vacant fpace was allotted 

 for military or other exercifes. The bay, or rather road, 

 of Ten-choo-foo, is not only open to the call and weft, but 

 partially (heltered towards the north by groups of fmall 

 iflands, fcattcred about at different diftances, from five miles 

 to twice as many leagues, off the main (hore. The Mi-a-tau 

 iflands are too diftant to break off much of either wind or 

 fwcU from that quarter. Tlie anchoring ground confifts in 

 great part of hard fharp_ rocks ; and at about i \ mile from 

 the Hiore is a dangerous reef, covered at high water, ex- 

 tending nearly a mile eall and weft, round which the water 

 fhoals fo fuddei\ly as to render any approach to it very 

 perilous. At Ten-t-hoo-foo is conftrufted a kind of dock, 

 or bafon, for veffels to load or difcharge their cargoes. The 

 entrance into it is between two piers, and is from 30 to 40 

 feet wide. The ground near the coaft of the Yellow fea is 

 richly cultivated, and riies in a gentle afcent, which is ter- 

 minated by liigli, broken, and barren mountains, apparently 

 granitical. The paflage between Ten-choo-foo and the 

 Mi-a-tau iflands is called in the ch.irt the llrait of Mi-a-tau, 

 in which ilrait the rife and fall of the tide are about feven 

 feet. Staunton's Embafly, &c. vol. i. 



TENTER, TiUEu, or Provcr, a machine ufed in the 

 cloth manufaftory, to tlretch out the pieces of cloth, ftuff, 

 &c. or only to make them even, and fet them fquarc. 



It it ufually about four feet and a half high, and, for 

 length, exceeds that of the longeft piece of cloth. It con- 

 fifts of fevcral long, fquaj-e pieces of wood, placed like thofe 

 which form the barriers of a manege ; fo, however, as that 

 the lower crofs-pieces of wood may be raifed or lowered, as 

 is found requifite, to be fixed at any height, by means of 

 pins. Along the crofs-pieces, both the upper and under 

 one, are hooked nails, called tcnter-hoohs, driven in from 

 fpace to fpace. 



To put a Piece of Cloth on the Tenter. — While the piece is 

 yet quite wet, one end is faftened to one of the ends of the 

 tenter ; then it is pulled by force of arms towards the other 

 end, to bring it to the length required : tiiat other end being 

 faftened, the upper lift is hooked on to the upper crofs-piece, 

 and the loweft lift to the lovveft crofs-piece, which is after- 

 wards lowered by force, till the piece ' have its defired 

 breadth. Being thus well ftretched, both as to length and 

 breadth, they brufli it with a ftift liair-briifli, and thus let it 

 dry. Then they take it off; and, till they wet it again, it 

 will retain the length and breadth the tenter gave it. 



TENTERDEN, in Geography, is a fmall market-town 

 in the hundred of the fame name, in the lathe of Scray, 

 and county of Kent, England, fituated 18 miles S.S.E. 

 from Maidilone, and 56 miles S.E. by S. from London. 

 N. lat. 51° 4' 8". E. long, o''^ 41' 8". At a remote 

 period it was incorporated by the name of the " barons 

 of the town and hundred of Tenterden ;" which ftyle 

 was changed to that of the " bailifi" and commonalty," 

 by letters patent of Henry VL, who at the fame time an- 

 nexed it as a member to the town and port of Rye, in 

 SufTex, to which it is yet fubjeft. Queen Elizabeth, in 

 her forty-fecond year, granted the inhabitants a new charter, 

 by which, in the place of a bailiff, &c. the future govern- 

 ment of the town was vefted in a mayor, twelve jurats, 

 twelve common-council men, a chamberlain, and a town- 

 clerk. The prefent town-hall, which is occafionajly ufed 

 as an affembly-room, was built about the year 1792 ; the old 

 one having been burned by an accidental lire. The market- 

 houfe is a fm.all, mean edifice of timber, now little fre- 

 quented ; the market itfelf being almoft difufcd, though ftill 



nominally 



