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but without any stool being ready to be 
voided. 
TENNE, Tenny, or Tawny, in lieva!- 
dry, a bright colour made of red and 
yellow mixed ; sometimes also called brusk, 
and expressed in engraving, by thwart, or 
diagonal strokes oi' hatches, beginning fi om 
the sinister chief, like purpure, and marked 
with the letter T. In the coats of all be- 
low the degree of nobles, it is called tenny ; 
but in those of nobles, it is called hya- 
cinth; and in prince’s coats, the dragon’s 
head. 
TENNIS, a play at which a ball is driven 
by a racket, which requires great prac- 
tice to make a good player, so that nothing 
can be done without it ; all we presume to 
do is, to give an insight into the game, by 
which a person may not seem a total stran- 
ger to it when he happens to be in a tennis- 
court. 
The game of tennis is played in most ca- 
pital cities in Europe, particularly in France, 
whence we may venture to derive its ori- 
gin. It is esteemed, with many, to be one 
of the most ancient games in Cliristendom, 
and long before King Charles I.’s time it 
was played in England. This game is as 
intricate as any game whatever; a person 
who is totally ignorant of it n)ay look on 
for a month together, without being able to 
make out how the game is decided. 
The size of a tennis-court is generally 
about 96 or 97 feet by 33 or 34, there be- 
ing no exact dimension asciibed to its pro- 
portion, a foot more or less in length or 
width being of no consequence, A line or 
net hangs exactly across the middle, over 
which the ball must be struck, either with 
a racket or board, to make the stroke good. 
Upon the entrance of a tennis-court, there 
is a long ga,llery which goes to the dedans, 
that is, a kind of front gallery, where spec- 
tators usually stand ; into which whenever 
a ball is struck, it tells for a certain stroke. 
This long gallery is divided into different 
compartments or galleries, each of which 
has its particular name, as follows; from 
the line towards the dedans are the first 
gallery, door, second gallery, and the last 
gallery, which is called the service side. 
From the dedans to the last gallery are the 
figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, at a yard distance 
each, by which the cliaces are marked, and 
is one of the most essential parts of the 
game, as will appear in the following de- 
scription. 
I>n the other side of the line are also the 
first gallery, door, second gallery, and last 
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gallery, which is called the hazard-side. 
Every ball struck into the last gallery on 
this side reckons for a certain stroke the 
same as the dedans. Between the second 
and this last gallery are the figures ], g, to 
mark the chaces on the hazard-side. • Over 
this long gallery, or these compartments, is 
a covering, called the penthouse, on which 
they play the ball from the service-side, in 
order to begin a set of tennis, from which 
it is called a service. AFhen they miss 
putting the ball (so as to rebound from the 
penthouse) over a certain line on the ser- 
vice-side, it is deemed a fault, two of which 
are reckoned for a stroke. If the ball rolls 
round the penthouse, on the opposite of the 
court, so as to fall beyond a certain line de- 
scribed for that purpose, it is called passe, 
reckons for nothing on either side, and the 
player must serve again. 
On the right-hand side of the court from 
the dedans is what they call the tambour, a 
part of the wall which projects, and is so 
contrived in order to make a variety in the 
stroke, and render it more difficult to be 
returned by the adversary for when a ball 
strikes the tambour, it varies its direction, 
and requires some extraordinary judgment 
to return it over the line. The last thing 
on the right-hand side is called the grill, 
wherein if the ball is struck, it is also 1.5,’ 
or a certain stroke. 
The game of tennis is played by what 
they call sets; a set of tennis consists of six 
games : but if they play what is called an 
advantage-set, two above five games must 
be won on one side or the other successively, 
in order to decide ; or, if it comes to six 
games all, two games must still be won on 
one side to conclude the set; so that an ad- 
vantage-set may last a considerable time ; 
for which kind of sets the court is paid 
more than for any other. , 
We must now describe the use of the 
chaces, and by what means these chaces de- 
cide or interfere so much in the game. 
When the player gives his service at the 
beginning of a set, his adversary is sup- 
posed to return the ball; and wherever it 
fplls after the first rebound untouched, the 
cbace is caded accordingly ; for example, 
if the ball fells at the figure 1, the chace is 
called at a yard, that is to say, at a yard 
fiom tlie dedans: this chace remains till a 
second service is given ; and if the player 
on the service-side lets the ball go after his 
adversary returns it, and if the ball falls on 
or between any of these figures or chaces, 
they must change sides, there being two 
