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declaration, and that the plaintiff shall not, 
at the trial of tlie issue, be permitted to give 
any evidence as to this money. This rule, 
by which the money brought into court is 
ordered to be struck out of the declaration, 
is from its being more frequently granted, 
than that by which it is ordered that. the 
proceeding shall be stayed, called the com- 
mon rule. Upon a pleas of tender the de- 
fendant must not plead the general issue, or 
a full denial as to the whole demand, but 
ordy to that part which is an excess above 
the sum tendered. And the plaintiff in an- 
swer to this must either deny the tender, 
or reply that there was a demand and re* 
fiisal, which is a sufficient answer to the 
plea that states the defendant was always 
ready to pay. If Bank notes have been 
offered, and no objection made on that ac- 
count, it has been considered by the Court 
of King’s Bench as good tender. But to 
constitute a tender there must not merely 
be an offer by the defendant, that, if the 
plaintiff will take it, he will give him so 
much ; but there must be an actual offer 
and readiness, accompanied with apparent 
ability, to pay immediately, although it is 
not absolutely necessary to produce the 
money in tale upon the table. 
It is said, a Bank note is no tender, nor 
is it, if it is refused. But, by a late statute, 
before any one can be arrested, and held to 
bail, the plaintiff must swear that his debt 
has not been tendered to him in Bank 
notes, so that it is next to a legal tender ; 
yet the plaintiff may sue by process, with- 
out liolding to bail, and obtain judgment 
against the defendant, with his costs ; on 
which the sheriff will levy, and probably 
tender the amount in Bank notes ; so that 
the plaintiff will be put off in an endless 
circle, if it is worth while to incur costs, 
and Bank notes are now a legal tender in 
every thing but tlie name, which is, in the 
opinion of the best writers on political eco- 
nomy, a circumstance that must depreciate 
their real value. 
Tender, a small ship, in the service 
of.men of war, for carrying of men, provi- 
sions, or any thing else that is necessary. 
TENDONS. Membranes are those 
parts of the body which include some of^ 
the internal parts of animals. Many of 
them are extremely thin, and they possess 
different degrees of transparency. I’hey 
become pidpy by maceration in water, and 
by boiling are almost entirely converted 
into gelatine, so that they are chiefly com- 
posed of this substance. No phosphate of 
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lime, nor other saline matter, has been dc» 
tected in the membranous substances hi- 
therto analyzed. Tendons are reduced by 
boiling to a gelatinous substance, so that 
they are composed of a similar matter with 
membranes. The ligaments afford a por- 
tion of gelatine by boiling, but are not, 
like the two former, entirely reduced to 
jelly, so that some other substance besides 
gelatine enters into the composition of liga- 
ments. 
TENEBRIO, in natural history, a genus 
of insects of the order Coleoptera. Antennae 
moniliform, the last joint roundish ; tliorax 
planoconvex, margined; head projecting ; 
shells rigid. There are about one hundred 
species, divided into sections. A. Feelers 
six, filiform ; fore-shanks formed for digging. 
B. Feelers four. One of the most remark- 
able species is T. mortisagus, which is black, 
and about an inch long ; it is slow in its 
motions, and distinguished by the remark- 
ably pointed appearance of the wing- 
sheatlis, which at their extremities project 
a little beyond the abdomen. It is found 
in dark, neglected places, beneath boards 
in cellars, and if handled, and especially if 
crushed', it gives out a very unpleasant 
smell. T. gibbosus, or, according to Dr. 
Shaw, T. globosus, is seen during the hot- 
test part of summer about walls and path- 
ways : it is distinguished by the globular 
appearance of the body. T. molitor, is an 
insect often found in houses, is coal black, 
and very small. It proceeds from a larva 
called the meal-worm, from its being com- 
monly found in meal and bread. This is 
said to be the favourite food of nightingales. 
It remains two years before it changes into 
a chrysalis. 
TENEMENT, in its common accepta- 
tion, is applied only to houses and other 
buildings ; but in its original, proper, and 
legal sense it signifies every thing that may 
be holden, provided it be of a perma- 
nent nature, whether it be of a substantial 
or of an unsubstantial and ideal kind. Thus, 
ft auk tenement, or freehold, is applicable 
not only to lands and other solid objects, 
but also to offices, rents, commons, and the 
like ; and as lands and houses are tene- 
ments, so is an advowson a tenement ; and 
a franchise or office, a right of common, a 
peerage, or other property of the like un- 
substantial kind, are all of them, ipgally 
speaking, tenements. 
TENESMUS, in medicine, a name given 
by medical writers to a complaint which 
is a continual desire of goiqg to stool, 
