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The common tenucea at tliis day are, fec-fimplc, ftc-tail, 

 ty courti.fy, in dower, for life, or for years, or by copy of 

 court-roll. 



Tknuke, Barons by ancient. See Bauos. 



Tenure, D'ljlurbance of, is a fpecics of injurv which con- 

 fifts in brt'aklng that connetlion which fiibiills between the 

 lord and his tenant, and to which the law pavs fo hij^h a 

 regard, that it will not fuffer it to be wantonly diflblved by 

 the acl of a third pcrlon. If, therefore, tiiere be a tenant 

 at will ol any lands or tenements, and a ilranger, either by 

 menaces or threats, or by unlawful diilretfes, or by fraud 

 and circumvention, or other means, contrives to drive him 

 away, or inveigle him to leave his tenancy, this the law very 

 jnftly conftrues to be a wrong and injury to the lord ; and 

 gives him a reparation in damages againtl the offender by a 

 fpecial aftion on the cafe. Blackil. Com. vol. iii. 



TENUTE, Ital. in Mujic, generally written ten, from 

 the Italian verb tenere, to hold on, fullain to the lall moment 

 of a note's duration. See Sostf.nuto. 



TENYA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the country 

 of Foota. N. lat. io° 15'. W. long. 10° 25'. 



TEN-YANG, a town of Corea ; 73 miles E.S.E. of 

 King-ki-tao. 



TENZEGZET, a town of Algiers ; 16 miles S. of 

 Tremecen. 



TENZY^, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of Cra- 

 cow ; 20 miles W. of Cracow. 



TEOATZINCO, a town of Mexico, in the country of 

 Tlafcala, where a bloody battle was fought between the 

 natives and the Spaniards under Cortez ; 20 miles E. of 

 Tlafcala. 



TEOLO, a town of Italy, in the Paduan ; 7 milee 

 S.S.W. of Padua. 



TEOLY, a town of Hindoallan, in the circar of GwKud ; ' 

 15 miles S.E. of Gwalior. 



TEOMAHAL, a fmall ifland in the Sooloo Arohipe- 

 lago. N. lat. 6° 15'. E. long. 120° 51'. 



TEONA, a fmall iiland near the well coall of Scotland. 

 N. lat. 56= 47'. W. long. 5^ sy. 



TEOPISCAN, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Chiapa ; 60 miles S.E. of Chiapa dos Efpagnols. 



TEOS, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia Minor, in 

 Ionia, on the fouthern coall of a peninlula, which became 

 an iiland when the fea was high or much agitated. It 

 was fituated over-againll the ifle of Samos, S.W. of Smyrna, 

 and E. of the promontory of Coryceon. It is celebrated 

 for having been the birth-place of Anacreon. The inhabit- 

 ants were renowned for their courage : they preferred aban- 

 doning their city to living under the tyranny of the Pcrfiane. 

 Teos was treated with mildnefs by the Roman emperors. 

 Bacchus had a magnificent temple here, which Vitruvius has 

 particularly defcribed. Here alio was held a general coun- 

 cil for the management of all the affairs of Ionia, becaufe 

 this city was in the centre of Ionia. — Alfo, the name of a 

 t )wn of Scythia. 



TEOWENISTA Creek, in Geography, a rircr of 

 Pennfylvania, which runs into the AUeghany, about 5 miles 

 below Hickery. 



TEPAPA. See Taroatauietoomo. 



TEPEACA, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in the 

 province of Tlafcala; 15 miles S.S.E. of Pucbla de los 

 Angelos. 



TEPEGUANA, a diflria of New Brafil, fituated on 

 the Nazas. 



TEPELLENE', a town of Albania, the birth-place 

 and favourite refidence of Ali, fituated on the banks of a 

 river, which at the diflancc of 60 miles from the fea appears 



to be «s broad .ns tlie Tiiamcs at Weilaiinlkr brnli^e. The 

 ilrcets of the town, containing about 400 ill-liiiill huufet, 

 are extremely dirty ; but the palace of the vizier ib very 

 magnificent. 



TEPE-MAXTL ATON, in Zoology. Sec Y^L\sTigrUia. 



TEPETISTAC, in Geography, a town of Mexico, in 

 the province of Guadalajara ; 60 milts N. of Guadalajara. 



TEPETOTOIT,. in OrmthMgy, the name of a' Bra- 

 filian h'.rd of the gallinaceous kind, more ufually called 

 m'Uuporauga. Sec CliAX Alcciur. 



TEPHLIS, or Tklphis, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Alia, in the vicinity of Media. 



TEPHRIA, in the Natural Hiflory of the Ancients, a 

 name given to the grey ophites. 



TEPHRICA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, 

 in the neighbourhood of Cilicia and Armenia. 



TEPI-IROMANTIA, Tsjfo/iws.a, \n Antiquity, a fpe- 

 ciej of divination, performed with afhes ; for which fee 

 Potter, ArcliKoL Grxc. tom. i. p. 353. 



TEPHROSIA, in Botany, from t.;'^v, ajb-coloured, in 



allulion probably to the ho.^y afpeft of the herbage 



" Perf. Syii. v. 2. 329." Purfh 489. (Erebinlhus ; 

 Mitchell in Ephem. Nat. Curiof. v. 8. 210?) — Clafs and 

 order, Diadelphia Dccandria. Nat. Ord. PapUionaccji, 

 Linn. Legutuinofs, Juff. 



Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth inferior, of one leaf, deeply 

 divided into live flraight, awl-fhaped teeth ; the upper ones 

 rather the Ihortefl ; the loweft rather longer than the reft. 

 Cur. papilionaceous. Standard recurved, l;irgc, roundifh- 

 obovate. Wings half-obovate, obtufe, flraight, rather 

 fhorter than the flandard. Keel broad, rounded, gibbous, 

 compreffed, the length of the wings. Slam. Filaments ten, 

 all firmly united along the middle into a membranous tube ; 

 the tenth feparate at tlie bafe, and in its upper half; all 

 capillary and diflinft at the extremity, fomewhat unequal 

 in length ; anthers terminal, uniform, ovate-oblong. Pifl. 

 Germen feflile, oblong, compreffed, very hairy ; uyle awl- 

 fhaped, angular, afcendlng, hairy along the back ; fligma 

 fimple, recurved, flightly hairy. Pcric. Legume oblong, 

 coinprcffed, hairy, fomewhat falcate or afcending, of two 

 valves and one cell. Seeds feveral, compreffed, kidney- 

 fhapcd, rather angular, flightly feparated from each other 

 by thin, imperfe£t, membraivous partitions. 



EfT. Ch. Calyx with awl-fhaped, nearly equal, teeth. 

 Stamens all connefted. Legume compreffed, rather coria- 

 ceous, of one cell, with mar.y feeds. Stigma acute. 



Obf. We have tak'^n our characters f^rom one certain 

 fpecies, T. virg'miana, comparing it with authentic original 

 fp; cimens of Mitchell's Erebinthus, which Linnxus thought 

 the very fame fpecics, but in this he was certainly millaken. 

 It appears to be Mr. Purfli's third fpecies, T. hfpidula; 

 and as far as we can judge, from fpecimens that will not 

 admit of diffeftion, and from Mitchell's dcfcrlption, it is 

 mofl probably of the fame genus, for Mltclicll might over- 

 look the partial union of the llamens, even fuppofing that 

 characlcr to cxill in his plant. If we were certain of this, 

 his name ought, by every right, to be preferred to the more 

 modern one of Perfoon. (See Erehinthus.) The genus 

 moreover is improperly placed in the fixth fcAion of Dia- 

 delphia, while its cffential charaAer indicates that it belongs 

 to the firft. 



I. T. virginiana. Virginian Grey-Vetch. Purfh n. I. 

 (Galega virginiana ; Linn. Sp. PI. 1062, excluding Hort. 

 ChfF. and Mitchell's fynonyms. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 

 1244. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 4. 355. Cicer adrag.iloides 

 (fortS) virginianum, hirfutie pubefccns, 6oribus amplis 

 lubrubentibus ; Pluk. Phyt. t. 23. f. 2.)— Ercd, hoary, 



and 



