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TENANT by Courtesy, holds for his life, by reason of a 
child begotten by him of his wife, being an inheretrix, and 
bom alive. 
TENANT in Capite, or Chief, holdeth of the king in 
right of his crown. See Capite. 
TENANT, or Tenan, in heraldry, is used for something 
that sustains, or holds up, the shield, or armoury; and is 
generally synonymous with the word supporter. 
To TE'NANT, v. a. To hold on certain conditions.—Sir 
Roger’s estate is tenanted by persons who have served him 
or his ancestors. Addison. 
TE'NANT ABLE, adj. Such as may be held by a tenant. 
—The ruins that time, sickness, or melancholy, shall bring, 
must be made up at your cost; for that thing a husband is 
but tenant for life in what he holds, and is bound to leave 
the place tenantahle to the next that shall take it. Suckling. 
TE'NANTLESS, adj. Unoccupied; unpossessed. 
O thou, that dost inhabit in my breast. 
Leave not the mansion so long tenant less ; 
Lest growing ruinous the building fall. 
Arid leave no memory of what it was. Shakspeare. 
TE'NANTRY, s. Tenancy.—Tenants have taken new 
leases of their tenantries. Bp. Ridley. —A body of tenants 
on an estate. 
TE'NANT-SAW, s. [corrupted, I suppose, from tenon- 
sawl] See Tenon. 
TENANZINCO, a settlement of Mexico, in the district 
of Zoquizingo, containing 800 families of Spaniards, Indians, 
and mestizoes. It is the name of several other inconsider¬ 
able settlements. 
TENAYUCA, a settlement of Mexico, in the intendancy 
of Mexico, containing 160 families; 9 miles north-north¬ 
west of Mexico. 
TENBURY, a market town of England, in the county of 
Worcester, situated on the river Teme, over which it has a 
stone bridge of six arches. The town is not very extensive, 
nor can it boast of much beauty of appearance. The trade 
consists chiefly of hops and cyder, of which great quantities 
are produced in the neighbourhood ; and here are also some 
opulent tanners and glovers. Tenbury contains 300 houses, 
and 1562 inhabitants. Market on Tuesday, and three annual 
fairs; 15 miles west-by-north of Worcester, and 130 north¬ 
west of London. 
TENBY, a market town and borough of Wales, in the 
county of Pembroke, situated in Caermarthen bay, at the 
mouth of the Bristol channel. It has been long noted for its 
trade, and of late years has also become a very fashionable 
resort for sea-bathing. The town stands on a rocky promon¬ 
tory of considerable elevation, which stretches over the sands 
in a southerly direction, and at high water is inclosed by the 
sea on every side except the north, where a narrow isthmus 
connects it with the mainland. The situation is singularly 
beautiful, and has a very striking effect from every point of 
approach. Tenby is one of the contributary boroughs, 
joined with Pembroke, in the return of the parliamentary 
representative for that place. It is governed by a mayor, be¬ 
sides whom the corporation consists of aldermen and com¬ 
mon councilmen, a chamberlain, town-clerk, two sheriffs or 
bailiffs, two sergeants-at-mace, and 12 constables. The town 
is divided into two districts, which are called the in liberties 
and the out liberties, the former subject to the jurisdiction of 
the mayor aud magistrates of the borough, and the latter to 
that of the magistrates of the county. The first charter 
granted to the town on record, is that by William Marshall, 
the first earl of Pembroke of that name. Various new char¬ 
ters were granted by subsequent monarchs. From the num¬ 
ber of ruined buildings and foundations to be seen in the 
outskirts of the town, it appears to have spread out at one 
time over a larger space than it now occupies, and to have 
contained a more numerous population. It contains 265 
houses, and 1176 inhabitants. Market on Wednesday and 
Saturday, and various annual fairs; 7 miles east of Pem¬ 
broke, and 233 west of London. Lat. 51. 40. N. long. 
4. 40. W. 
TEN 
TENCE, a town in the east of France, in Auvergne, 
department of the Upper Loire, on the small river Liguon. 
This part of France is mountainous and thinly peopled. 
Population 4900; 8 miles east of Yssengeaux, and 24 east- 
by-north of Le Puy. 
TENCH, s. [cince. Sax.; tinea, Lat.] A pond-fish.—■ 
Having stored a very great pond with carps, tench, and other 
pond-fish, and only put in two small pikes, this pair of ty¬ 
rants in seven years devoured the whole. Hale. 
TENCH’S ISLAND, an island in the Pacific ocean, two 
miles in circumference: it is low, but entirely covered with 
trees, many of which are the cocoa-nut; there were likewise 
others of a large size. These trees reached to the margin of 
a very fine sandy beach, which entirely surrounds the island. 
Lat. 1. 39. S. long. 150. 31. E. 
To TEND, v. a. [contracted from attend .] To watch; 
to guard; to accompany as an assistant or defender.—Go 
thou to Richard, and good angels tend thee. Shakspeare. 
—To attend; to accompany. 
Despair 
Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch. Milton. 
To be attentive to.—Unsuck’d of lamb or kid that tend 
their play. Milton. 
To TEND, v. n. [tendo, Lat.] To move towards a cer¬ 
tain point or place. 
To these abodes our fleet Apollo sends: 
Here Dardanus was born, and hither tends. Dry den. 
[tendre, Fr.] To be directed to any end or purpose; to 
aim at. 
Admiration seiz’d 
All heaven, what this might mean and whither tend. Milton . 
To contribute.—Many times that which we ask would, if 
it should be granted, be worse for us, and perhaps tend to 
our destruction ; and then God, by denying the particular 
matter of our prayers, doth grant the general matter of them. 
Hammond. —[From attend .] To wait; to expect. Out 
o f use. 
The bark is ready, and the wind at help; 
Th’ associates tend. Shakspeare; 
To attend; to wait as dependants or servants. 
She deserves a lord. 
That twenty such rude boys might tend upon, 
And call her hourly mistress. Shakspeare. 
To attend as something inseparable. In the three last 
senses it seems only a. colloquial abbreviation of attend. — 
Threefold vengeance tend upon your steps. Shakspeare. 
TENDA, a small town in the north of Italy, in Piedmont, 
province of Sospello, situated on the side of a steep hill, near 
the river Roja. The Piedmontese were defeated near this 
by the French, in the beginning of May, 1794; 20 miles 
south of Con, and 25 north-east of Nice. 
TENDA, a country of Western Africa, extending along 
the northern bank of the Gambia. A considerable trade is 
carrred on in ivory and gum. 
TE'NDANCE, s. Attendance; state of expectation. 
Unhappy wight, born to disastrous end. 
That doth his life in so long tendance spend. Spenser. 
Persons attendant. Out of use. 
His lobbies fill with tendance. 
Rain sacrificial whisp’rings in his ear. 
Attendance; act of waiting. 
She purpos’d, 
By watching, weeping, tendance, to 
O’ercome you with her shew. 
Care; act of tending. 
They at her coming sprung. 
And touch’d by her fair tendance gladlier grew. Milton. 
TE'NDENCE, or Te'ndency, s. Direction or course 
towards any place or object.—It. is not much business that 
distracts any man; but the want of purity, constancy, and 
tendency 
Shakspeare. 
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