tenement-house 
tenement-house (ten'e-ment-hous), n. A house 
or block of buildings divided into dwellings oc- 
cupied by separate families; technically, in the 
State of New York, any house occupied by more 
than three families. In ordinary use the word is re- 
stricted to such dwellings for the poorer classes in crowd- 
ed parts of cities. 
tenencyt, An obsolete spelling of tenancy. 
A vast, incircumscribed, and swimming knowledge, a no- 
tion, a mere implicit and confused tenency of many things, 
which lie like corn, loose on the floor of their brains. 
Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 367. 
tenendas (te-nen'das), . [So called from this 
word in the clause; L. tenendas, ace. pi. fern, 
of tenendus, gerundive of tenere, hold, possess: 
see tenant^.] i n Scots law, that clause of a char- 
ter by which the particular tenure is expressed. 
Sell. 
tenendum (te-nen'dum), n. [So called from 
this word in the clause ; L. tenendum, nom. sing. 
neut. of tenendus, gerundive of tenere, hold, 
possess: see tenant 1 ."] In law, that clause in a 
deed wherein the tenure of the land is denned 
and limited. 
tenent 1 (ten'ent), a. [< L. tenen(t-)s, ppr. of 
tenere, hold: see tenant' 1 .'] Holding; specifical- 
ly, in zool., used to hold, cling, or support: as, 
tenent hairs and bristles on the feet of insects. 
tenent 2 (ten'ent), n. In her., same as tenant 1 , 3. 
tenent s t (ten'ent), n. [L. tenent, they hold, 3d 
pers. pi. pres.' ind. of tenere, hold : see tenant 1 . 
Cf. tenet.] Same as tenet. 
We shall in our sermons take occasion now and then, 
where it may be pertinent, to discover the weakness of 
the puritan principles and tenents to the people. 
Bp. Sanderson, Cases of Conscience, {Latham.) 
Atheisme and Sadducism disputed ; 
Their Tenente argued, and refuted. 
Heywood, Hierarchy of Angels, p. 3. 
teneral (ten'e-ral), a. [< L. tenet; soft, deli- 
cate, + -al."] " In entom., noting the incomplete 
imago of a neuropterous insect, soon after it 
has passed from the pupal state, and while it 
is yet soft. See pseudimago and subimago. 
Teneriffe (ten'e-rif ), n. [< Tenerife or Teneriffe, 
the most important of the Canary Islands, situ- 
ated west of Africa.] Wine produced in the 
island of Teneriffe (properly Tenerife), former- 
ly imported into Europe. 
Teneriffe slug. See slug?. 
teneritudet (te-ner'i-tud), n. [ME., = It. teiieri- 
tudine, < L. teneritudo (-din-), softness, tender- 
ness, < tener, tender: see tender 1 ."] Tenderness. 
So wol thaire fattenesse and teneritude 
With hem [cheese] be stille. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 154. 
tenerityt (te-ner'i-ti), n. [= It. tenerita, < L. 
tenerita(t-)K, softness, tenderness, < tener, soft, 
tender: see tender 1 .'] Tenderness. Imp. Diet. 
tenesmic (te-nes'mik), a. [< tenexmux -f -ic.] 
In med., pertaining to or characterized by te- 
nesmus. 
tenesmus (te-nes'mus), . [NL., < L. tenesmon, 
< Gr. reivfouof, a straining at stool, < rciveiv, 
stretch, strain : see tend 1 .'] In med., a continual 
inclination to void the contents of the bowels 
or bladder, accompanied by straining, but with 
little or no discharge. It is caused by an irritation 
of the rectum or bladder or adjacent parts, and is a com- 
mon symptom in dysentery, stricture of the urethra, cys- 
titis, etc. 
tenet (ten'et), n. [< L. tenet, he holds, 3d pers. 
sing. pres. ind. of tenere, hold : see tenant 1 . Cf. 
habitat. Cf. also tenenfi.] Any opinion, princi- 
ple, dogma, or doctrine which a person, school, 
or sect holds or maintains as true. 
That all animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, 
although received as a principle, is a tenet very question- 
able- Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 24. 
Though my scheme was not wholly without religion 
there was in it no mark of any of the distinguishing tenets 
of any particular sect Franklin, Autobiog., p. 141. 
In the tenet of justification, the believer is himself in 
contact with the miracle of Christ's atonement, and ap- 
plies Christ's menu to himself. 
M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, ix. 
^Syn. Precept. Dogma, etc. See doctrine. 
tenfingers (ten'fing'gerz), n. A starfish with 
ten arms. Compare fivefnger, 3. 
tenfold (ten'fold), a. and adv. [< ten + -fold.] 
Ten times as much or as many. 
I will reward thee 
Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold 
For thy good valour. Shale., A. and C., iv. 7. 15. 
ten-forties (ten'for'tiz), n. pi [Short for ten- 
forty bonds: see def.] The popular name for 
certain five per cent, bonds issued by the gov- 
ernment of the United States in 1864, redeem- 
able at any time after ten years, and payable 
at the end of forty years. 
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tengerite (teng'er-It), n. [Named after C. 
Tenger, a Swedish chemist.] An imperfectly 
known yttrium carbonate occurring as a white 
crystalline or earthy incrustation upon gado- 
linite. 
Many more [minerals], such as cyrtolite, molybdite, al- 
lanite, tengerite, . . . have been found. Mature, XLI. 163. 
tenia, n. See teenia. 
tenientet (ten-yen'te), , [Sp., a lieutenant, a 
deputy, = E. tenant: see tenant 1 .'] A lieuten- 
ant ; a deputy. 
Am I your major-domo, your temcnt<>, 
Your captain, your commander? 
Middleton, Spanish Gypsy, ii. 1. 
tenioid, . See tsenioid. 
tennantite (ten 'ant-it), >*. [Named after 
Smithson Tennant, an English chemist (1761- 
1815).] A species closely related to tetrahe- 
drite, or gray copper ore, a mineral of a lead- 
gray or iron-black color, massive or crystal- 
lized, found in Cornwall, England, and else- 
where. It is a sulphid of arsenic with copper and iron, 
and differs from tetrahedrite in containing arsenic in place 
of antimony ; between the two species there are many in- 
termediate compounds. 
Tennant's powder. See powder. 
tenn6 (te-na'), n. [Heraldic F. : see tuwni/.~\ 
In her., a tincture spoken of as orange-brown, 
or as produced by mixing red and yellow, it is 
represented in engraving and drawings in black and white 
by diagonal lines from the sinister chief to the dexter base, 
crossed by vertical lines according to most authorities, or 
by horizontal lines according to Berry. Also tenney, tummy. 
tenner (ten'er), M. A ten-pound note. [Slang, 
Great Britain.] 
And you don't like me well enough to borrow a few 
tenners just to carry on the war with? 
Miss Braddon, Rupert Godwin, I. 221. 
Tennesseean (ten-e-se'an), n. and n. [< Ten- 
nessee (see def.) + -an.] " I. a. Of or pertaining 
to Tennessee. See II. 
II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Tennes- 
see, one of the southern United States, lying 
south of Kentucky. 
Tennessee bond cases. See case 1 . 
tenney (ten'e), . In her., same as tenne. 
tennis (ten'is), n. [Early mod. E. also tennise, 
tennys, tennes, tenis, tenys, tenyse; < ME. tenys, 
teneys (ML. tetiisia; also teniludium, 'tennis- 
play'); appar. of OF. origin, but no OF. term 
appears. The notion that the word is derived 
from OF. tene:, 'hold' or 'take' (i. e. 'take this 
ball '), conjectured to be a cry of the player who 
serves, is purely imaginary, and it is inconsis- 
tent with the usage of the time (ME. nouns were 
not formed offhand from OF. imperatives).] 
1. A very old and elaborate ball-game played 
by two, three, or four persons in a building spe- 
cially constructed for the purpose. The court (96 
feet by 32) is surrounded by a wall, from which a sloping 
roof called the penthouse extends on three sides to an in- 
ner wall 7 feet high ; and a net 5 feet high at the ends to 3 
in the middle is placed across the court. The first player 
(the server) hits a ball with a racket so that it strikes the 
penthouse or the wall above it, and rebounds into the court 
on his opponent's side of the net. The opposing player 
(the stri/ter-out) has to strike the ball back into the server's 
court before it strikes the ground, or on its first bound. 
The player who is the first to drive the ball into the net or 
beyond the prescribed boundary loses a stroke. If a play- 
er fails to return the ball before it strikes the ground twice, 
a chase is noted against him on the marked floor. This 
does not count at the time, but a stroke may be won or lost 
from it by subsequent play. When two chases have been 
made, or when the score of one side reaches 40, the play- 
ers change ends. Strokes are won and lost in various other 
ways besides those mentioned above (as by driving the ball 
into certain openings in the inner wall), the game being 
extremely complicated. The mode of scoring (by 15, 30, 
40, and game, with deuce and advantage) has been taken 
from this game by lawn-tennis. Tennis arose in Europe 
during the middle ages, and was very popular. It is now 
played under the name of court-tennui, to distinguish it 
from lawn-tennis. See racket? and laum-tennis. 
Item, that no man pley at tenys or pame withyn the 
yeld halle. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 372. 
I had as leve tosse a ball here alone as to play at the 
tenys over the corde with the. Palsgraiv, p. 760. 
Tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in 
respect it maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put it- 
self into all postures. 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, 11. 172. 
2. Same as luien-tennix. 
tennist (ten'is), r. t. [< tcmiix, .] To drive, 
as a ball in playing tennis. 
These fowre garrisons issuing foorthe, at such conven- 
ient times as they shall have intelligence or espiall upon 
the enemye, will so drive him from one side to another, 
and ttniux him amongest them, that he shall Hnde no 
where safe to keep his creete [cattle]. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
tennis-arm (teu'is-arm), w. A lameness of ten- 
nis-players, said to be caused by a rupture of 
some of the fibers of the pronator radii teres. 
tenor 
tennis-ball (ten'is-bal), n. The ball used in 
tennis or lawn-tennis. 
Rather (O lacob) chuse we all to die, 
Than to betray our Native Libertie ; 
Than to becom the sporting Tennis-ball 
Of a proud Monarch. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, it, The Captaines. 
To the lanizaries furie, who made Tennis-balls of their 
heads. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 287. 
tennis-court (ten'is-kort),)i. 1. An oblong edi- 
fice in which the game of tennis is played. See 
tennis, 1. 
The more spacious that the tennis-court is, 
The more large is the hazard. 
Webster, Devil's Law-Case, ii. 3. 
2. The court upon which the game of lawn- 
tennis is played. 
tennis-elbow (ten'is-el"bo), . Same as ten nix- 
arm. 
tenno (teu'6), n. [Jap. tenno, heavenly ruler, 
< ten Chinese Hen), heaven, + 100 (< Chinese 
hwang), august ruler.] The king of heaven; 
emperor: same as Chinese Hen hwang : a title 
first adopted in Japan in 782. 
ten-o'clock (ten'o-klok'), . The common star- 
of-Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum : so 
called from the tardy opening of the flowers. 
Compare four-o'clock. 
tenography (te-nog'ra-fi), n. [Irreg. < Gr. rivuv, 
a tendon (of. tendon), + -ypa<t>ia.,<.ipd<j>cw,wnt6.'] 
The description of tendons. 
tenology (te-nol'o-ji), n. [Irreg. < Gr. rtvav, a 
tendon, + -?o/(a, < Aiyeiv, speak: see -oloyy.] 
That part of anatomy which relates to tendons. 
tenon (ten'on), H. [Formerly also, irreg., tenant; 
< ME. tenoun, < OF. (and F.) tenon, a tenon, < 
tenir, hold, < L. tenere, hold, keep: see tenant 1 ."] 
The projecting end of a piece of wood or other 
material fitted for insertion into a correspond- 
ing cavity or mortise in another piece, in order 
to form a secure joint. See cuts under breech- 
pin, dovetail, and mortise Shoulder of a tenon, 
the transverse section of a timber, from which the tenon 
projects. (See also tease-tenon, tusk-tenon.) 
tenon (ten'on), v. t. [< tenon, n."] 1. To fit for 
insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece 
of timber. 2. To join by or as by a tenon. 
We tenon both these together as an antecedent and con- 
sequent. Bp. Andrews, Sermons, II. 86. (Daviet.) 
tenon-auger (ten'on-a"ger), n. A hollow auger 
for cutting circular tenons, as in the movable 
rollers for window-shades, etc. 
tenoner (ten'on-er), n. A machine for form- 
ing tenons. Such machines are usually combinations 
of saws, or saws with cutters and driving mechanism, 
whereby the shoulders are cut squarely, and the super- 
fluous wood is cut away to leave the tenon. 
Tenonian (te-no'ni-au), a. [< Tenon (see def.) 
+ -tan.] In atiat., relating to the French anat- 
omist J. R. Tenon (1724-1816): as, the Teno- 
nian fascia or capsule (Tenon's capsule). 
tenoning-chisel (ten'on-ing-chiz"el), . A 
double-bladed chisel which makes two cuts, 
leaving a middle piece to form a tenon. E. H. 
Knight. 
tenoning-machine (ten'on-ing-ma-shen), n. 
In icond-icorking, a machine for cutting tenons. 
There are three chief types of machine in use those em- 
ploying revolving cutters, hollow augers, and chisels re- 
spectively. Some of these machines can also be used to 
cut mortises, and by the addition of other cutting-tools 
some may be used to finish and dress the work. 
tenonitis (ten-o-ni'tis), n. [< Tenon (see Teno- 
nian) + -f'ft'x.] Inflammation of Tenon's cap- 
sule. 
tenon-saw (ten'qn-sa), n. A thin back-saw 
having eight teeth to the inch, used for fine, ac- 
curate sawing, as in forming tenons, dovetails, 
miters, etc. Also called tenor-saw. 
Tenon's capsule. A tunic of fascia, containing 
smooth muscular fibers, around the middle of 
the eyeball, blending with the sclerotic behind 
the entrance of the ciliary vessels and nerves 
into the eyeball ; the Tenonian fascia. 
tenor (ten'or). . and a. [Formerly also tenour, 
sometimes "tennure; < ME. tenour, tenor, tenoure, 
< OF. tenour, teneur='PT. Sp. tenor = Pg. tear = 
It. tenure, < L. tenor, a holding on, uninterrupt- 
ed sense, tone, accent, ML. also, in music, the 
chief melody (cantus firmus), hence the highest 
adult male voice, to which the chief melody was 
assigned; < tenere, hold: see tenant 1 .'] I. n. 1. 
General, usual, or prevailing course or direc- 
tion. 
Along the cool, sequester d vale of life 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 
Gray, Elegy. 
The chief event in the course of the summer which broke 
the even tenor of our lives was a first visit from our great 
neighbors, Lord and Lady Carlisle. 
Lady Holland, Sydney Smith, vii. 
