Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement,
unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
Locke.
Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of
being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for
families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by
poor families.
Syn. — House; dwelling; habitation. — Tenement, House. There may be
many houses under one roof, but they are completely separated from each
other by party walls. A tenement may be detached by itself, or it may
be part of a house divided off for the use of a family.
Ten`e*men"tal (?), a. Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being
held by tenants. Blackstone.
Ten`e*men"ta*ry (?), a. Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
Spelman.
Ten"ent (?), n. [L. tenent they hold, 3d pers. pl. pres. of tenere.] A
tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.
Ten"er*al (?), a. [L. tener, - eris, tender, delicate.] (Zoöl.) Of,
pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of
certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the
insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Ten`er*iffe" (?), n. A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more
tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; — called also
Vidonia.
Te*ner"i*ty (?), n. [L. teneritas. See Tender, a.] Tenderness. [Obs.]
Ainsworth.
Te*nes"mic (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized
by tenesmus.
||Te*nes"mus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to stretch: cf. L.
||tenesmos.] (Med.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a
||discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be
||effected; — always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
||
Vesical tenesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine,
referred to the region of the bladder.
Ten"et (?), n. [L. tenet he holds, fr. tenere to hold. See Tenable.]
Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person
holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a
tenet very questionable.
Sir T. Browne.
The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with
contempt.
Macaulay.
Syn. — Dogma; doctrine; opinion; principle; position. See Dogma.
Ten"fold` (?), a. & adv. In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times
repeated.
The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform.
Milton.
||Te"ni*a (?), n. [NL.] See Tænia.
||
Te"ni*oid (?), a. See Tænoid.
Ten"nant*ite (?), n. [Named after Smithson Tennant, an English
chemist.] (Min.) A blackish lead- gray mineral, closely related to
tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
||Ten`né" (?), n. [Cf. Tawny.] (Her.) A tincture, rarely employed,
||which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is
||represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by
||vertical lines.
||
Ten"nis (?), n. [OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin,
perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see Tenable).]
A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by
striking it with a racket or with the open hand. Shak.
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing
tennis, . . . were familiar to all London.
Macaulay.
Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of
peculiar construction; — distinguished from lawn tennis. — Lawn tennis.
See under Lawn, n. — Tennis court, a place or court for playing the
game of tennis. Shak.
Ten"nis, v. t. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing
tennis. [R.] Spenser.
Ten"nu (?), n. (Zoöl.) The tapir.
Ten"-o'*clock` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under
Star.
Ten"on (?), n. [F., fr. tenir to hold. See Tenable.] (Carp. & Join.) A
projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to
insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a
frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the
thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the
other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
Tenon saw, a saw with a thin blade, usually stiffened by a brass or
steel back, for cutting tenons. [Corruptly written tenant saw.] Gwilt.
Ten"on, v. t. To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of
a piece of timber.
Te*no"ni*an (?), a. (Anat.) Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a
French anatomist.
Tenonian capsule (Anat.), a lymphatic space inclosed by a delicate
membrane or fascia (the fascia of Tenon) between the eyeball and the
fat of the orbit; — called also capsule of Tenon.
Ten"or (?), n. [L., from tenere to hold; hence, properly, a holding on
in a continued course: cf. F. teneur. See Tenable, and cf. Tenor a kind
of voice.] 1. A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of
continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor
of their away.
Gray.
2. That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the
general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning;
understanding.
When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor.
Shak.
Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility
and meekness to all men?
Spart.