TEN 
VI. Antennse setaceous; many joints. 
123. Tenthredo erythrocephala.—Body ceeruleous; head 
red. 
124. Tenthredo sylvatica.— Body black; feet and marks 
of the thorax yellow. 
125. Tenthredo nemoralis.—Body black; segments of 
the abdomen white at the side. 
126. Tenthredo cynosbati.—Body black; feet ferruginous, 
hinder annulated with white and black. 
127. Tenthredo signata.—Pale; thorax and three dorsal 
longitudinal spots black.—Found in Germany. 
128. Tenthredo populi.—Black-blueish; mouth, feelers, 
and legs yellow. 
129. Tenthredo vafra—Head black, variegated with 
white; feet testaceous.—Found in Sweden. 
130. Tenthredo reticulata.—Wings varied with pale and 
brown, with elevated veins, white and reticulated.—Found 
in Finland. 
131. Tenthredo betulae.—Body red; thorax, anus, and 
eyes black ; wings behind brown. 
132. Tenthredo flava.—Yellow, with the spot on the 
wings ferruginous. 
133. Tenthredo haemorrhoidalis.—Black; with the anus 
and feet testaceous.—In Germany. 
134. Tenthredo nemorum.—Middle of the abdomen red; 
scutellum and point on the wings white. 
135. Tenthredo depressa.—Head and thorax black; marks 
yellow; abdomen and feet ferruginous.—In Austria and 
France. 
136. Tenthredo linearis.—Black; legs, and five bands of 
the filiform abdomen, yellow.—In Austria. 
137. Tenthredo bipunctata.—Antennae sub-setaceous; 
nine joints black, and two points of the black scutellum 
white. 
VII. Of doubtful order. 
138. Tenthredo intertinctus.—Black; with yellow feet 
subclated antennae. 
139. Tenthredo rumicis.—Found on the dock. 
140. Tenthredo ulmi.—Found on the leaves of the wild 
elder. 
141 Tenthredo pruni.—Found on the plum-tree. 
142. Tenthredo lonicerae.—Brown, tomentose, shining, 
with subclavated antennae, and subferruginous wings. 
143. Tenthredo polygona.—Black; antennae subclavated 
with eighteen knots; the hinder margin of the segments of 
the abdomen from the third to the fifth yellow greenish : the 
thighs black; the face anterior at the apex and the anterior 
yellow; the hinder at the apex black: the linear abdomen 
compressed. 
TENTI'GINOUS, adj. [tentigo, Lat.] Stiff; stretched. 
TENTOLI, a town of the island of Celebes, near the 
north extremity, on the west coast, which gives name to a 
road. Lat. 1. N. 
TE1NTORY, s. [ tentorium , Lat.] The awning of a 
tent. Mason —The women who are said to weave hangings 
and curtains for the grove, where no other than makers of 
tentories, to spread from tree to tree. Evelyn. 
TENTSMOOR, Point, a cape of Scotland, on the coast 
of Fife, at the mouth of the Tay. Lat. 56. 25. N. long. 
2. 55. W. 
TENTUGAL, a small town of Portugal, in the province 
of Beira, with 1200 inhabitants; 11 miles west-north-west 
of Coimbra. 
TE'NTWORT, s. [adiantum album , Lat.] A plant. 
Ainsworth. 
TENTZELL (William Ernest), a German antiquary and 
historian, was born in 1659, at Greussen in Thuringia, 
and finished his education at Wittemberg, directing the 
course of his studies to philosophy and the Oriental lan¬ 
guages, and also to history, both sacred and profane. In 
1685 he was appointed a teacher in the gymnasium at 
Gotha, and entrusted with the care of the Duke’s collec¬ 
tion of antiquities and coins. In order to qualify him* 
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self for the more honourable diacharge of his duties as histo¬ 
riographer to the house of Saxony of the Enerstine line, to 
which office he was appointed in 1696, he visited various 
courts in Germany, and carried or\ an epistolary corre¬ 
spondence with many distinguished foreigners. In 1702, 
he removed to Dresden, where he was made historio¬ 
grapher to the king of Poland, by whom he was honoured 
with the title of counsellor; but his manuers not being 
adapted to a court, he obtained leave to retire. What 
remained of his life was devoted to literary pursuits; and 
he died, very poor, in November 1707, in his 49th year. 
His works were numerous, among which we may reckon the 
following: viz. “ De Phenice,” Vitemb. 1682, 4to.; “ De 
Ritu Lectionum Sacrorum,” Vitemb. 1685, 4to., a work 
highly commended by Bayle; “Judicia Eruditorum de 
Symbolo Athanasiano studiose collecta et inter se collata,” 
Francs, et Lips. 1687 12mo.; “ Animadversiones in Casimiri 
Ordine Supplementum de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis,” 1688, 
12mo.; “ Casparis Sagittarii Historici Saxonici Historia 
Gothona plenior, &c.” Jena 1700, 4to.; “Supplementum 
Historic Gothonae,” ibid. 1701, 4lo.; “Supplementum 
Hist. Goth, secundum,” ibid. 1701, 4to.; “ Saxonia Nu- 
mismatica, Parsl.” Francs, et Lips. 1705, 4to.; “Pars II.” 
1705. Tentzel was also a contributor to several literary 
journals. Gen. Biog. 
TENUIFO'LIOUS, adj. [tenuis and folium, Lat.] Hav¬ 
ing thin leaves. 
TENU'ITY, s. [tenuitas, from tenuis, Latin.] Thin¬ 
ness; exility; smallness; minuteness; not grossness.—At 
the height of four thousand miles the aether is of that wonder¬ 
ful tenuity, that if a small sphere of common air, of an inch 
diameter, should be expanded to the thinness of that aether, 
it would more than take up the orb of Saturn, which is many 
million times bigger than the earth. Bentley. —Poverty; 
meanness. Not used. —The tenuity and contempt of cler¬ 
gymen will soon let them see what a poor carcass they are, 
when parted from the influence of that supremacy. King 
Charles. 
TE'NUOUS, adj. [ tenuis, Lat. Glanville writes it tenui- 
ous.~] Thin ; small; minute. 
Could I but follow where you lead. 
Disrob’d of earth and plum’d by air. 
Then I my tenuous self might spread 
As quick as fancy every-where. J. Hall. 
TE'NURE, s. [teneo, Lat, tenure, Fr., tenure, law Lat.] 
The manner whereby tenements are holden of their lords.— 
In Scotland are four tenures, the first is pura eleemosina, 
which is proper to spiritual men, paying nothing for it, 
but devota animarum suffragia; the second they called feu, 
which holds of the king, church, barons, or others, paying a 
certain duty called feudi firma; the third is a holding in 
blanch by payment of a penny, rose, pair of gilt spurs, or 
some such thing, if asked ; the fourth is by service of word 
and relief, where the heir being minor is in the custody of hi* 
lord, together with his lands, and lands holden in this manner 
is called feudum de hauberk or haubert, feudum militare or 
loricatum. Tenure in gross is the tenure in capite; for the 
crown is called a seignory in gross, because a corporation of 
and by itself. Cowel. —The service follows the tenure of 
lands; and the lands were given away by the kings of Eng¬ 
land to those lords. Spenser. 
TEODORA, St., a small island near the north coast of 
Candy; 8 miles north-west of Canea. 
TEOLO, a small town of Austrian Italy, Tn the govern- 
of Venice. Population 1600; 10 miles south-west of Padua, 
and 15 south-south-east of Vicenza. 
TEOLOYUCA, a settlement of Mexico, near the city 
of Mexico. 
TEOMAHAL, a small island in the Sooloo archipelago. 
Lat. 6. 15. N. long. 120.51. E. ‘ ” 
TEONA, a small island of Scotland, in Inverness-shire, in 
the opening of the arm of the sea called Loch Moidart. 
TEORA, a small towp in the south of Italy, in the central 
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