tent-caterpillar 
tent-caterpillar (tent'kat"er-pil-iir), M. A web- 
worm ; the larva of either of two North Ameri- 
can bombycid moths of the genus Clixiorampa, 
C. americanu and ('. si/lcatica. The former is the 
tent-caterpillar of the orchard and the latter the tent- cater- 
pillar of the forest. C. americana feeds normally on the 
Female Moth of Tent-caterpillar (Cli: 
ifa amertcatta). 
wild cherry, but often does great damage by defoliating 
the apple and pear. The larvse live gregariously in great 
tent-like silken webs (whence the name). Compare lackey- 
moth. See also cut on preceding page, and cut under Cli- 
giocampa. 
tent-cloth (tent ' kloth), n. Canvas or duck 
made for tents, awnings, etc. 
tented (ten'ted), a. [< tenfl + -ed?."] 1. Cov- 
ered or furnished with tents. 
They have used 
Their dearest action in the tented field. 
Shak., Othello, i. 8. 86. 
Till sad Mecisthevis and Alastor bore 
His honour'd body to the tented shore. 
Pope, Iliad, xiii. 532. 
2f. Of or like a tent (I). 
With Heed-like Lance, and with a blunted Blade, 
To Championize rnder a Tented shade. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Vocation. 
tenter 1 (ten'ter), n. [< tent* + -erl.] One 
who lives in a tent. 
The pretty girl of our civilization, who pushes into the 
canvas home of the tenters. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 801. 
tenter 2 (ten'ter), . [< ME. tenture, tentowre, < 
OF. tenture, a stretching, hangings, < ML. ten- 
turn, a stretcher, tenter, lit. a stretching, spread- 
ing (cf. L. tensura, a stretching: see tensure),< 
tendere,pp. tentus, tensus, stretch : see tend 1 , and 
cf. tenfl, tents, an d tenture."] 1. A machine or 
frame used in the manufacture of cloth to 
stretch out the pieces of stuff, so that they may 
set or dry evenly and square. Along the upper and 
lower crosspieces, which can be fixed apart from each 
other at any required distance, are numerous sharp hooks, 
called tenter-hooks, on which the selvages of the cloth are 
hooked. 
Sykes, for instance, when his dressing-shop was set on 
fire and burned to the ground, when the cloth was torn 
from his tenters and left in shreds on the field, took no steps 
to discover or punish the miscreants. 
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, ii. 
2. Same as tenter-hook. 
O how friends' reasons and their freedoms stretch, 
When power sets his wide tenters to their sides ! 
Chapman, Byron's Tragedy, v. 1. 
3. One of the little bristles of a fly's foot ; a 
tentacle. 
Beset underneath with small bristles or tenters. 
Dr. Hooke. 
On or upon the tenter or tenters, on the stretch; on 
the rack ; hence, in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. 
How, upon the tenters? indeed, if the whole peece were 
so stretcht, and very well beaten with a yard of reforma- 
tion, no doubt it would grow to a goodly breadth. 
Heywood, Fair Maid of the Exchange (Works, II. 25). 
It was gallantry that suited her own maiden loftiness, 
ever stretched upon the tenters of punctilio. 
Goldsmith, Sequel to A Poetical Scale. 
tenter 2 (ten'ter), v. [< tenter^, .] I. trans. 
To hang or stretch on or as on tenters. 
Easily we may imagine what acerbity of pain must be 
endured by our Lord in his tender limbs being stretched 
forth, racked, and tentered. Barrow, Works, II. xxxii. 
We fear he will be bankrupt ; he does stretch, 
Tenter his credit so ; embraces all. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, li. 8. 
II. in trans. To support or resist the strain- 
ing of the tenter ; bear tentering. 
Woollen cloth will tenter. Bacon. 
tenter 3 (ten'ter), n. [< tent*, v., + -<yl.] Aten- 
der; one who tends or has the care or oversight 
of something: as, a cattle-tenter; specifically, 
a person in a factory who tends or watches ma- 
chinery ; often, also, an overseer or foreman in 
a factory. -Drawing tenter, in cotton-spinning, an 
operator whose duty it is to supply full cans in place of the 
emptied ones, and to mend the slivers when they break, 
tenter-bar (ten'ter-bar) , n. In bleaching calico, 
dyeing, etc., a bar provided with a series of 
tenter-hooks, and used in a tenter for stretch- 
ing cloth ; also, such a bar used for stretching 
cloth by hand. It is used by engaging the selvage of 
the cloth upon the hooks and by pulling upon the bar, 
stretching the material to the desired extent. See ten- 
tenter-ground (teu'ter-ground), n. A ground 
or space for the erection and maintaining of 
tenters. 
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I entered Kendal almost in the dark, and could distin- 
guish only a shadow of the castle on a hill, and tenter- 
yrfnindg spread far and wide round the town. 
Gray, To Dr. Wharton, Oct. 18, 1769. 
tenter-hook (ten'ter-huk), n. [Early mod. E. 
ti ntcr-hoke; < tenter" 2 + hook."] 1. A hook for 
stretching cloth on a tenter. 
Any Hurts whatsoever, received either by Sword, Cane, 
or Gun Shot, Knife, Saw, or Hatchet, Hammer, Nail, or 
Tenter hook, Fire, Blast, or Gunpowder, etc. 
Quoted in Ashton's Reign of Queen Anne, II. 106. 
2. Figuratively, anything that painfully strains, 
racks, or tortures. 
Parasites are his [the prodigal's] tenter-hooks, and they 
stretch him till he bursts. Rev. T. Adami, Works, I. 49. 
Difficulties which stretched his fine genius ou the ten- 
ter-hooks. I. D'lsraeli, Curios, of Lit., II. 379. 
3. In her., a bearing representing an iron hook 
with the straight bar pointed at one end, and 
projecting beyond the bent or angled part at 
the other, so that it can be driven in by blows 
of a hammer On tenter-hooks. Same as on the 
tenters (which see, under tenter^). 
I know Dolly 's on tenter-hooks now. 
Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. xxviii. 
tentering-machine (ten'ter-ing-ma-shen"), n. 
In weaving, a machine for stretching fabrics, 
consisting of a combination of rollers, which 
may be driven at different speeds, with devices 
for feeding and delivery. 
tent-fly (tent'fll), n. A piece of canvas stretch- 
ed across the ridge-pole of a tent, and secured 
to the ground by ropes along its lower edges. 
tent-guy (tent'gi), . A rope, additional to the 
usual tent-ropes, for the better securing of a 
tent in a storm. A guy usually passes from the 
top of each upright to the ground at some dis- 
tance in front and rear. 
tenth (tenth), a. and n. [< ME. tenthe, teoitthe, 
tende, beside tethe, tithe, E. tithe, the form with 
n being due to a mixture with the cognate Icel. 
tiundi (see teind), and to conformity with ten, 
< AS. tedtha = OS. tehando = OFries. tegotha, 
tegetha, tegatha, tianda, tienda = D. tiende = 
MLG. teinde = OHG. zehanto, MHG. sehente 
(zende), Gc.zehnte = Icel. tiundi = Sw. tionde = 
Dan. tiende = Goth, taihunda, tenth; as ten + 
-itfi. Cf. tithe."] I. a. 1. Last in order of a se- 
ries of ten ; preceded by nine of the same kind ; 
next in order after that which is ninth: an 
ordinal numeral. 2. Being one of ten equal 
portions or sections Tenth nerve, in anat., the 
pneumogastric nerve, as that one of the cranial nerves 
which comes between the ninth (glossopharyngeal) and 
the eleventh (spinal accessory) in that enumeration which 
counts twelve of these structures. 
II. n. 1. One of ten equal parts into which 
anything maybe divided; a tithe. 2. In early 
EIKJ. laic, a tithe of the rents of the year, or of 
movables, or both, granted or levied by way of 
tax. When a tenth was the rate fixed for towns and de- 
mesnes, that for the counties exclusive of towns and de 
mesnes was usually a fifteenth. 
3. Eccles., the tenth part of the annual profit of 
every living in England, formerly paid to the 
Pope, but by statute transferred to the crown, 
and afterward made a part of the fund called 
Queen Anne's bounty. 4. lu music: (a) The in- 
terval, whether melodic or harmonic, between 
any tone and a tone one octave and two degrees 
distant from it ; also, a tone distant by such 
an interval from a given tone; a compound 
third. (6) An organ-stop giving tones a tenth 
above the normal pitch of the digitals used ; a 
decima, or double tierce. 
tenthdealt, adv. [ME. tenthedel; < tenth + 
dean. Cf. halfendeal."] By as much as a tenth 
part. 
I ne wot in this world what wise i mist 
Quite the [thee] tenthe del in al mi lif time. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. 3.), 1. 4716. 
tenthly (tenth'li), adv. [< tenth + -ly 1 *.] In 
the tenth place. 
tenthredinid (ten-thred'i-nid), a. and . I. . 
Of or pertaining to the family Tenthredinidai. 
II. n. A member of the family Tenthrediiii- 
das; a saw-fly. 
Tenthredinidse (ten-thre-din'i-de), ti.pl. [NL. 
(Leach, 1819), < Tenthredo (stem taken as *Ten- 
thredin-, but prop. Tenthredon-) + -idte.~\ An 
important family of hymenppterous insects, 
including the forms ordinarily known as saie- 
fiies, and coextensive with the series Piiyllo- 
pJiai/a. The adults are distinguished by the two-jointed 
trochanters, the connate abdomen, two apical spurs to 
the front tibise, and a pair of saws at the end of the 
abdomen of the female. The larvse often resemble lepl- 
dopterous larvffi. They have six true legs, and often from 
twelve to sixteen prolegs, and are rarely covered with a 
white waxy secretion. Most species are leaf-feeders, issu- 
ing from eggs laid in slits cut in leaves by the female saws. 
tentorial 
A few forms, however, are twig-borers, or inhabit 'the 
stems of cereals or other grasses. They pupate in tough 
parchment-like silken cocoons. About 700 species are 
known in Europe, and about 500 in North America. Many 
Imported Currant-worm ( Nematui Tjentricosus). 
a, male fly; b, female fly. (Crosses show natural sizes.) 
are pests to horticulture and agriculture, as the wheat-saw- 
fly (Cephw pygmeeus), the rose-sawfly (Monostegia rosse), 
the osier-willow saw-fly (Nematus ventralu), and the im- 
ported currant-worm (Nematus ventricosus). See cuts un- 
der Hylotoma, Lyda, Securifera, and rose-saw-fly. 
Tenthredo (ten-thre'do), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 
1748), < Gr. TevSpTjAov (-<W-), a kind of wasp. 
Cf. drone'*."] A genus of saw-flies, typical of 
the family Tenthredinidse, at first coextensive 
with the family, but now restricted to certain 
forms with long setaceous antennae, in which 
the third joint is longer than the fourth, and 
the lanceolate cell of the fore wings has a 
straight cross-nervure. They are the largest 
of the saw-flies next to the Cimbicinas. 
tenticlet (ten'ti-kl), . [< ML. 'lenticula, dim. 
of tenta, a tent: see tent 1 ."] A little tent. 
They were the tenticles or rather cabins and couches of 
their soldiers. Patten, Exped. to Scotland (1548). (Dames.) 
tentift, a. Same as tentive. 
tentiflyt, adv. See tentively. 
tentiform (ten'ti-form), a. Shaped like a tent ; 
in entom., noting the mines of certain tineid 
larvse, in which one or the other surface of the 
infested leaf is raised in a tent-like form. 
tentiginoust (ten-tij'i-nus), a. [< L. tentigo 
(-gin-), a tension, lust (< tendere, stretch: see 
tend 1 , tent 3 ), + -ous.] 1. Excited to lust. 
Were you tentiyinous, ha? ... 
Did her silk's rustling move you ? 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, ii. 1. 
2. Producing lasciviousness; lascivious. 
Nothing affects the head so much as a tentiginous hu- 
mour, repelled and elated to the upper region, found by 
daily practice to run frequently up into madness. 
Suri/t, Mechanical Operations of the Spirit, ii. 
tenting (ten'ting), a. [< tenfi + -ing'*.'] Hav- 
ing the form of a tent. [Rare and erroneous.] 
Coverlids gold-tinted like the peach . . . 
Fell sleek about him in a thousand folds, 
Not hiding up an Apollonian curve 
Of neck and shoulder, nor the tenting swerve 
Of knee from knee, nor ankles pointing light ; 
But rather giving them to the filled sight 
Officiously. Keats, Endymion, ii. 
tentivet (ten'tiv), a. [< ME. tentif, tentyf, by 
apheresis from attentif, attentive : see attentive. 
Cf. tent*. Cf. also tenty, a later form of tentive,] 
Attentive. 
We schlen do so tentyf besynes fro day to night that 
. . . che shal be hool and sound. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus (Harl. MS.). 
Wyth tentive lystning eeche wight was setled in harck- 
ning. Stanihurst, .Eneid, ii. 1. 
tentivelyt (ten'tiv-li), adv. [< ME. tentifly; < 
tetttive + -}y%.] Attentively; carefully. 
?if ge tentifly take kepe & trewe be to-gadere, 
wol winne our warisun, for i wot where thei are. 
William, of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2268. 
TenKfly she kept hir fader dere. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 278. 
tentless (tent'les), o. [< tent* + -less.] Inat- 
tentive; heedless. [Scotch.] 
I'll wander on. with tentless heed 
How never-halting moments speed. 
Till fate shall snap the brittle thread. 
Burns, To James Smith. 
tent-maker (tent'ma"ker), ii. One who makes 
tents. 
By their occupation they were tentmakers. Acts xviii. 3. 
tentorial (ten-to'ri-al), . [< teiitoi-iiini + -al.] 
Of or pertaining to the tentorium Tentorial 
