Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. — Tent
caterpillar (Zoöl.), any one of several species of gregarious
caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they
retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit
trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth
(Clisiocampa Americana). Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.
Tent, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge as
a tent; to tabernacle. Shak.
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.
W. Kittredge.
Ten"ta*cle (?), n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel:
cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zoöl.) A more or less elongated process
or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic
region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense,
prehension, or motion.
Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the
tentacles of many mollusks.
Ten"ta*cled (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having tentacles.
Ten*tac"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. tentaculaire.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining
to a tentacle or tentacles.
||Ten*tac`u*la"ta (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of Ctenophora
||including those which have two long tentacles.
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{ Ten*tac"u*late (?), Ten*tac"u*la`ted (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Having
tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.
||Ten`ta*cu*lif"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Suctoria, 1.
||
Ten`ta*cu*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Tentaculum + -ferous.] (Zoöl.) Producing
or bearing tentacles.
Ten`ta*cu"li*form (?), a. (Zoöl.) Shaped like a tentacle.
Ten*tac"u*lite (?), n. (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of small,
conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be
pteropods.
Ten*tac"u*lo*cyst (?), n. [Tentaculum + cyst.] (Zoöl.) One of the
auditory organs of certain medusæ; — called also auditory tentacle.
||Ten*tac"u*lum (?), n.; pl. Tentacula (#). [NL. See Tentacle.] 1.
||(Zoöl.) A tentacle.
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2. (Anat.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the
face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile
hair.
Tent"age (?), n. [From Tent a pavilion.] A collection of tents; an
encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.
Ten*ta"tion (?), n. [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation.] 1.
Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or
experiments. Knight.
Ten*ta"tive (?), a. [L. tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif. See Tempt.] Of
or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow,
tentative manner." Carlyle. — Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.
Ten*ta"tive, n. [Cf. F. tentative.] An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Berkley.
Tent"ed (?), a. Covered with tents.
Ten"ter (?), n. 1. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a
factory; a kind of assistant foreman.