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TE'NSION, s. [ tension , Fr., tensus, Lat.] The act of 
stretching; not taxation.—It can have nothing of vocal 
sound, voice being raised by stiff tension of the larynx ; and 
on the contrary, this sound by a relaxed posture of the 
muscles thereof.— Holder. 
The state of being stretched; not laxity. 
Still are the subtle strings in tension found. 
Like those of lutes to just proportion wound, 
Which of the air’s vibration is the force. Blackmore. 
TE'NSIVE, ad/. [ tensus , Latin.] Giving a sensation of 
stiffness or contraction.—From choler is a hot burning pain ; 
a beating pain from the pulse of the artery; a tensive pain 
from distension of the parts by the fulness of humours. 
Flower. 
TE'NSURE, s. [tensus , Lat.] The act of stretching, or 
state of being stretched ; the contrary to taxation or laxity. 
—This motion upon pressure, and the reciprocal thereof, 
motion upon tensure, we call motion of liberty, which is, 
when any body being forced to a preternatural extent, re- 
stoeth itself to the natural. Bacon. 
TEN-TCHEOU, a city of China, of the first rank, in the 
province of Shantung. It is a sea-port, with a convenient 
harbour, and is defended by a strong garrison, and by several 
ships of war; 250 miles south-east of Pekin. Lat. 37. 48. 
N. long. 120. 44. E. 
TENT, s. [ tentorium , Lat., from tendo, to stretch.]—A 
soldier’s movable lodging place, commonly made of canvass 
extended upon poles.—The Turks, the more to terrify Corfu, 
taking a hill not far from it, covered the same with tents. 
Knolles. —Any temporary habitation; a pavilion. 
He saw a spacious plain, whereon 
Were tents of various hue: by some were herds 
Of cattle grazing. Milton , 
\tente, Fr.] A roll of lint put into a sore. 
Modest doubt is call’d 
The beacon of the wise; the tent that searches 
To th’ bottom of the worst. Shalcspeare. 
\yino tinto, Spanish.] A species of wine deeply red, 
chiefly from Galicia in Spain. 
While the tinker did dine, he had plenty of wine. 
Rich canary with sherry and tent superfine. Old Ballad. 
To TENT, v. n. To lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle. 
The smiles of knaves 
Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys’ tears take up 
The glasses of my sight. Shalcspeare. 
To TENT, v. a. To search as with a medical tent. 
I’ll tent him to the quick; if he but blench, 
I know my course. Shalcspeare. 
TE'NTAGE, s. An encampment. Not in use .—Upon 
the mount the king his tentage fixed. Drayton. 
TENTA'TION, s. [ tentstio , Latin.] Trial; temptation.— 
If at any time, through the frailty of our wretched nature 
and the violence of tentation, we be drawn into a sinful ac¬ 
tion, yet let us take heed of being leavened with wickedness. 
Bp. Hall. 
TE'NTATIVE, adj. [ tento , Latin.] Trying; essaying.— 
This is not scientifical but tentative. Berkeley. 
TE'NTED, adj. - Covered with tents 
These arms of mine till now have us’d 
Their dearest action in the tented field. Shakspcare. 
TE'NTER, s. [tendo, tentus, Latin; tinfcepgan, Sax. tor- 
quere.] A hook on which things are stretched.—Every term 
he sets up a tenters in Westminster hall, upon which he 
racks and stretches gentlemen like English broad-cloth. 
Overbury. 
To be on the TENTERS. To be_on the stretch; to be 
in difficulties; to be in suspense. 
In all my past adventures, 
I ne’er was set so on the tenters. 
Or taken tardy with dilemma. 
That ev’ry way I turn does hem me. Hudibras. 
To TE'NTER, v. a. To stretch by hooks.—A blown 
bladder pressed riseth again, and when leather or cloth is 
tentered, it springeth back. Bacon. 
To TE'NTER, v. n. To admit extension.—-Woollen cloth 
will tenter , linen scarcely. Bacon. 
TENTERDEN, a market town of England, in the county 
of Kent, situated near the river Rother, and about six miles 
from the edge of Romney marsh. Tenterden was incorpo¬ 
rated by letters patent of Henry VI. who at the same time 
annexed it as a member to the town and port of Rye, in 
Sussex, to which it is yet subject. Queen Elizabeth, in her 
42d year, granted the inhabitants a new charter, by which, 
in place of a bailiff, &c., the government of the town was 
vested in a mayor, 12 jurats,12 common councilmen, a cham¬ 
berlain, and town-clerk. Tenterden was one of the first 
places in which the woollen manufacture was established in 
the reign of Edward III. Market on Friday, and a large 
annuual fair on the first Monday of May ; 24 miles south¬ 
west of Canterbury, and 56 east-by-south of London. Lat. 
51. 5. N. long. 0. 42. E. 
TENTERGATE, a hamlet of England, in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, in the parish of Knaresborough. 
TE'NTERGROUND, s. Ground on which tenters are 
erected for stretching cloth.—I entered Kendal almost in the 
dark, and could distinguish only a shadow of the castle on 
a hill, and tenter-grounds spread far and wide round the 
town. Gray. 
TENTH, adj. [teoSa, Sax.] First after the ninth; or¬ 
dinal of ten.—It may be thought the less strange if others 
cannot do as much at the tenth or twentieth trial, as we did 
after much practice. Boyle. 
TENTH, s. The tenth part. 
Of all the horses, 
The treasure in the field achiev’d, and city. 
We render you the tenth. Shalcspeare. 
Tithe. 
With cheerful heart 
The tenth of thy increase bestow, and own 
Heav’n’s bounteous goodness, that will sure repay 
Thy grateful duty. Phillips . 
Tenths are that yearly portion which all livings ecclesias¬ 
tical yield to the king. The bishop of Rome pretended right 
to this revenue by example of the high priest of the Jews, 
who had tenths from the Levites, till by Henry the Eighth 
they were annexed to the crown. Cowel. 
TE'NTHLY, adv. In the tenth place. 
TENTHREDO, in Entomology, a genus of the Hymen- 
opetera, order of insects, the characters of which are, that 
the mouth has a horny, arcuated mandible, within den- 
tated; a straight jaw, obtuse at the apex; a cylindric, trifid 
lip, with four unequal filiform feelers; the wings flat, and 
tumid or slightly inflated; the piercers consisting of two 
serrated scarcely prominent laminae; and the scutellum with 
two distant granules. 
The larvae of this genus resemble those of the order Lepid- 
optera, or real caterpillars; but are distinguished from them 
by their more numerous feet, which are never fewer than 
sixteen, exclusive of the three first or thoracic pairs. When 
disturbed or handled, they usually roll themselves into a flat 
spiral. They feed, like the caterpillars of the lepidoptera, 
on the leaves of plants; and undergo their chrysalis state in 
a strong gummy case or envelopement, prepared in autumn, 
out of which, in the ensuing spring, emerges the complete 
insect. The tenthredines form a numerous genus, and are 
divided into tribes or sections, according to the form of the 
antennae. Gmelin reckons 143 species. 
I. Antennae elevated. 
1. Tenthredo femorata.—Antennae yellow; black body; 
hinder thighs largest; the larva green, with a blueish line on 
the back, and yellow at the sides. 
2. Tenthredo marginata.—Antennae yellowish at the apex; 
black body; the hinder segments of the abdomen white at 
the margin. 
3. Tenthredo 
