12. Young ; weak: as, tender age. TE'NDERNESS. n. s. (tendresser Fr. from When yet he was but tender bodied, a mother tender.] should not sell him. Sbukspeare. Beneath the dens, where unfetch'd tempests 1. The state of being tender ; susceptilie, bility of impressions ; not hardness. And infant winds their tender voices try. Cawley. Pied cattle are spotted in their tongues, the tenderness of the part receiving more easily al. To TE'NDER. v. a. (tendre, Fr.] terations than other parts of the flesh. Bacon. 1. To offer; to exhibit ; to propose to The difference of the muscular flesh depends acceptance. upon the hardness, tenderness, moisture, or dri. Some of the chiefest laity professed with ness of the fibres. Arbutbuot, greater stomach their judgmenis, that such a 2. State of being easily hurt ; soreness. discipline was little better than popish tyranny disguised, and tendered unto them. Hooker. A quickness and tenderness of sight could not Locke. I crave no more than what your highness endure bright sun-shine. offer'd; Any zealous for his country, must conquer Nor will you tender less. that tenderness and delicacy which may make Shekspeare. Addison. Al conditions, all minds, tender down him afraid of being spoken ill of. Their service to lord Timon. Sbakspeare. There are examples of wounded persons, Owe not all creatures by just right to thee that have roared for anguish at the discharge Duty and service, not to stay till bid, of ordnance, though at a great distance; what But tender all their pow'r ? Milton. insupportable torture then should we be under He had never heard of Christ before; and so upon a like concussion in the air, when all the more could not be expected of him, than to em whole body would have the tenderness of a wound ! brace him as soon as he was tendered to him. Bentley. Duty of Mar. 3. Susceptibility of the softer passions. 2. To hold ; to esteem. Weep no more, lest I give cause Tender yourself more dearly; To be suspected of more tenderness Or, not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, Than doth become a man. Shakspeare Wringing it thus, you 'll tender me a fool. Well we know your tenderness of heart, Sbakspeare. And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse 3. [from the adjective.] To regard with To your kindred. Shakspeare. kindness. Not in use.. With what a graceful tenderness he loves! And breathes the softest, the sincerest vows! I thank you, madam, that you tender her: Addison. Poor gentlewoman, my master wrongs her much. Shekspeare. 4. Kind attention; anxiety for the good TE'NDER. n.'s. [from the verb.] of another. 1. Offer ; proposal to acceptance. Having no children, she did with singular care and tenderness intend the education of Philip and Then to have a wretched puling fool, Margaret. Bacon. Sbakspeare. 5. Scrupulousness; caution. My conscience first receiv'd a tenderness, That you have ca'en his tenders for true pay, Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter'd Which are not sterling. Sbakspeare. Sbakspeare. The earl accepted the tenders of my service. Some are unworthily censured for keeping Dryden. their own, whom tenderness how to get honestly To declare the calling of the Gentiles by a teacheth to spend discreetly; whereas such need free unlimited tender of the gospel to all. South. no great chrittiness in preserving their own who Our tenders of duty every now and then mis- assume more liberty in exacting from others. carry. Addison. Wotton, 2. (from the adjective.] Regard; kind True tenderness of conscience is nothing else concern. Not used. but an awful and exact sense of the rule which Thou hast shew'd thou mak'st some tender of should direct it; and while it stcers by this commy life, pass, and is sensible of every declination from it, In this fáir rescue thou hast brought to me. so long it is properly tender. South. Sbakspeare. 6. Cautious care. 3. A small ship attending on a larger. There being implanted in every man's nature i TE'NDER-HEARTED. adj. (tender and a great tenderness of reputation, to be careless of it is locked on as a mark of a degenerous mind. heart.] Of a soft compassionate dispo Government of the Tongue. sition. 7. Soft, pathos of expression. TE'NDERLING, 11. s. [from tender.] 1. The first horns of a deer. TE'NDiNous. adj.(tendineux, Fr. tendinis, 2. A fondling; one who is made soft by Latin.] Sinewy; containing tendons ; too much kindness. consisting of tendons. Nervous and tendinous parts have worse symp. TE'NDERLY. adv. (from tender.] In a toms, and are harder of cure than fleshy ones. tender manner; mildly; gently; softly; Wiseman, kindly; without harshness. TE'NDON. n. s. (tendo, Lat.] A sinew; a Tenderly apply to her Some remedies for life. Sbakspeare. ligature by which the joints are moved. She embrac'd him, and for joy A struma in her instep lay very hard and big Tenderly wept. Milton. Wiseman. They are the most perfect pieces of Ovid, and The entrails these embrace in spiral strings, the style tenderly passionate and courtly. Those clasp th' arterial cubes in tender rings; Preface to Ovid. The rendons some compacted close produce, Marcus with blushes owns he loves, And some thin fibres for the skin distuse. And Brutus tenderly reprovess Pape. Blackmore, Hh2 treason. TE'YDŘIL. . s. (tendrilion, Fr.] The In wanton ringlets wav'd, Millon. Dryden. The tendrils or claspers of plants are given only to such as have weak stalks, and cannot raise up or support themselves. Ray. TENE'BRICOSE. adj. (tenebricosus, teneTE'NEBROUS. brosus, Lat.] Dark; gloomy. Darkness; gloom. mentum, law Lat.] Any thing held by a What reasonable man will not think that the tenement shall be made much better, if the tenant may be drawn to build himself some handsome habitation thereon, to uitch and inclose his ground? Spenser. T is policy for father and son to take difterent sides; for then lands and tenements commit no Dryden. · Who has informed us, that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece. Locke. Pope. dinsworth. TENE'SMUS, ». S. The stone shutting up the orifice of the bladder is attended with a ienesmus, or needing to go to stool. Arburónci. TE'NET.1. s. (from tonet, Latin, be huids. It is sometimes written tenent, or they bold.] Position ; principle; opinion. That all animals the land are in their kind in the sea, alcheugh received as a principle, is a zones very questionable. Brown. While, in church matters, profit shall be the touch-scorre for faith and inanners, we are not to wonder if no gainful benci be deposited. Djecay of Pity. This savours of something ranker than Só. cinianism, even the tenets of the fifth monarchy, and of sovereignty founded only upon saintship. Soutb. 'Ithey wonder men should have mistook The teneis of their master's book. Prior. TE'N FÖLD.adj. (ten and folu.] Ten times increased. Fire kindled into terfold rage. Milton. TENNIS. n. s. This play is supposed by Skinner to be so named from the word tenez, take it, hold it, or there it goes, used by the French when they drive the ball.] A play at which a ball is driven with a racket. The barber's inen hath been seen with him, and the old ornament of his chcek hath already stuffed linnis balls. Shakspeare. A prince, by a hard destiny, became a tennis ball long to the blind goddess. Howel. It can be no more disgrace to a great lord to draw a fair picture, than to play at tennis with Peatlai. The inside of the uvez is blacked like the walls of a tennis court, that the says falling upon the retina may not, by being rebounded thence upon the uvea, be returned again; for such a ; repercussion would make the sight more confused. More against Atheiser. We conceive not a tennis ball to think, con. sequently not to have any volition, or preference of motion to rest. Lacke We have no exedra for the philosophers adjoining to our tennis court, but there are ale houses. Arbutbrot and Pepe To TE'NNIS. v. a. (from the noun.) To drive as a ball. Not used. Those four garrisons issuing forth upon the enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them, that he shall find no where safe to keep his feet in, nur hide himself. Spenser TE'NON. n. s. (Fr.) The end of a timber cut to be fitted into another timber. Such variety of parts, solid with hollow; some with cavities as mortises to receive, others with tenons to fit them. R.Ty. The tenant-saw being thin, hach a back 19 keep it from bendivg. Meter. TE'NoUR. n. s. (texor, Lat. teneur, Fr.! 1. Continuity of state; constant mode; manner of continuity; general cure rency We might perceive his words interrupted continually with sighs, and the tenor of his speech not knit together to one constant end, bui dis. solved in itself, as the vehemency of the invard passion prevailed. Sidas Crasbaer. Miltes. Does not the whole tenor of the divine is positively require humility and meekness to all men? Spratio This success would look like chance, if it were not perpetual, and always of the same tenor. Drgdes Can it be poison? poison's of one tenet, Or hot, or cold. Drydes. There is so great an uniformity amongst them, that the whole tener of those bodies thus preserved clearly points forth the month of May: In such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Dryder, Woodewi his page: Sbakspoint. sore. with a close attention to the tenor of the dis- TENT. n. s. (tente, Fr. tentorium, Lat.) course, and a perfect neglect of the divisions into 1. A soldier's moveable lodging-place, chapters and verses. Locke. commonly made of canvas extended 3. A sound in musick. The treble cutteth the air too sharp to make upon poles. The Turks, the more to terrify Corfu, taking the sound equal; and therefore a mean or tenor a hill not far from it, covered the same with sonts, is the sweetest part. Bacon. Knolles. Water and air he for the tenor chose, Earth made the base, the treble flame arose. Because of the same craft he wrought wich them; for by occupation they were tent makers. Couley. Acts. TENSE. adj. [tensus, Latin.] Stretched; 2. Any temporary habitation; a pavilion. stiff; not lax. He saw a spacious plain, whereon For the free passage of the sound into the car, Were tents of various hue: by some were herds it is requisite that the tympanum be tense, and Of cattle grazing. Milton. hard stretched, otherwise the laxness of the To Chassis' pleasing plains he took his way, membrane will certainly dead and damp the There pitch'd his tents, and there resolvid to sound. Holder. Dryden. TENSE. *. s. [temps, Fr. tempus, Lat.) In 3. [tente, Fr.] A roll of lint put into a grammar, tense, in strict speaking, is only a variation of the verb to signify Modest doubt is call'd time. Clarke. The beacon of the wise; the tent that searches As foresight, when it is natural, answers to To th' bottom of the worst. Shakspe.ure. memory, so when methodical it answers to re- A declining orifice keep open by a small teni miniscence, and may be called forecast; all of dipt in some medicaments, and atter digestion them expressed in the tenses given to verbs. Me withdraw the tent and heal it. Wiseman. mory saith, I did see; reminiscence, I had seen; 4. [vino tinto, Spanish.] A species of wine foresight, I shall see; forecast, I shall have seen. deeply red, chiefly from Gallicia in Grew. Ladies, without knowing what tenses and par. T. TENT. V. %. (from the noun.] To Spain ticiples are, speak as properly and as correctly as gentlemen. Locke. lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle. He should have the Latin words given him The smiles of knaves in their first case and tese, and should never be Tent in my checks, and schoolboys' tears take up left to seek them himself from a dictionary. The glasses of my sight. Sbakspears Watts. T. TENT. v. a. To search as with a medi. a TE'NSENESs. n. s. [from tense.] Con- cal tent. traction ; tension : the contrary to I'll tent him to the quick; if he but blench, laxity. I know my course. Sbalspeare. Should the pain and tenseness of the part con I have some wounds upon me, and they smart, tinue, the operation must take place. Sharp -Well night they fester 'gainst ingratitude, And tent themselves with death. TE'NSIBLE. adj. [tensus, Lat.] Capable Shetspeare. Some surgeons, possibly against their own of being extended. judgments, keep wounds tented, often to the ruin Gold is the closest, and therefore the heaviest, of their patient. Wiseman. of metals, and is likewise the most Acxible and TENTATION. n. s. (tentation, Fr. tentatio, tensible, Bacon. TE'NSILE. adj. (tensilis, Latin.] Capable Lat.) Trial ; temptation. The first delusion Satan put upon Eve, and of extension. his whole tentation, when he said, Ye shall not All bodies ductile and tensile, as metals that die, was, in his equivocation, You shall not incur will be drawn into wires, have the appetite of Brown. not discontinuing Bacon. TENTATIVE. adj. (tentative, effort, Fr. TE'NSION. n. s. (tension, Fr. tensus, Lat.] tento, Lat.] Trying ; essaying. 1. The act of stretching; not laxation. This is not scieatifical, but tentative. Berkley. It can have nothing of vocal sound, voice being TE’NTED. adj. [tronn tent.] Covered with raised by stiff tension of the larynx; and on the tents, These arms of mine till now have us'd Their dearest action in the tented tield. Shaksp. *. The state of being stretched; not The foe deceiv'd, he pass'd the tented plain, laxity. In Troy to mingle with the hostile train. Pope. Still are the subtle strings in tension found, TE'NTIR. 1. s. (tendo, tentus, Lat.) Like those of lutes, to just proportion wound, Which of the air's vibration is the force. 1. A hook on which things are stretched. Blackmore. 2. To be on the TESTERS. To be on the TE'ssive. adj. (tensus, Lat.] Giving a stretch; to be in difficulties; to be in sensation of stiffness or contraction. suspense. From choler is a hot burning pain; a beating In all my past adventures, pain from the pulse of the artery; a tensive pain I ne'er was set so on the centers; from distention of the parts by the fulness of Or taken tardy with dilemma, That every way I turn does hem me. Hudibra.. TE'NSURE. n. s. (tensus, Lat.] The act of To TENTER. T. a. [from the noun.] To, or state of being stretched ; stretch by hooks. the contrary to laxation or laxity.. A blown bladder pressed riseth again; and This motion upon pressure, and the reciprocal when leather of cloth is tentered, it springerh thereof, motion upon tensure, we call motion of Bacon. liberty, which is, when any body being forced to To TENTER.v. n. To admit extension. a preternatural extent restoreth itself to the na- Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely. Bacen. present death. humours. stretching, back. B.1:79. tural Pbilips. Τ Ε Ν Tenth. adj. [reoða, Sax.] First after the TE'NURE. 9. s. [teneo, Lat. tenure, French; ninth ; ordinal of ten. tenura, law Lat.] The manner whereby It may be thought the less strange, if others tenements are holden of their lords. cannot do as much at the tenth or twentieth trial In Scotland are four tenures; the first is pura as we did after much practice. Boyle. eleemosina, which is proper to spiritual men, TENTH. n. s. [from the adjective. ] paying nothing for it, but devoia animarum 1. The tenth part. suffragia; the second they call feu, which holds Of all the horses, of the king, church, barons, or others, paying The treasure in the field archiev'd, and city, a certain duty called feudi firma; the third is a We render you the tentb. Sladspeare holding in blanch by payment of penny, rose, By deciination and a rithed death, pair of gilt spurs, or some such thing, if asked; If thy revenges hunger for that food the fourth is by service of ward and relief, where Which nature loaths, take thou the destin'd the heir being minor is in the custody of his lord, textb. Shakspeare. together with his lands, and lands holden in this To purchase but the tenth of all their store, manner are called feudum de hauberk or houbert, Would make the mighty Persian monare poor. feudum militare or loricatum. Tenure in gross Dryden. is the tenure in capite; for the crown is called a Suppose half an ounce of silver now worth a seignory in gross, because a corporation of and Cowvel. by itself. bushel of wheat; but should there be next year a scarcity, five ounces of silver would purchase The service foilovs the tenure of lands; and the but one' bushel, so that money would be then lands were given away by the kings of England nine tenths less worth in respect of food. Locke. to those lords. Spenser 2. Tithe. The uncertainty of tenure, by which all worldly With cheerful heart things are held, ministers very unpleasant inedi tation. The tenth of thy increase bestow, and own Raleigh. Heav'n's bounteous goodness, that will sure Man must be known, his strength, his state, And by that tenure he holds all of fate. Dreden. rерау Thy grateful duty. TEPEFA'CTION, n. s. [tep?facio, Latin.] 3. Tentbs are that yearly portion which all The act of warming to a small degree. livings ecclesiastical yield to the king. Te'rid. adj. (tepidus, Lat.) Lukewarm; The bishop of Rome pretended right warm in a small degree. to this revenue by example of the The trpid caves, and tens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch. Milton high priest of the Jews, who had tenths He with his tepid rays the rose renews, from the Levites, till by Henry the And licks the dropping leaves, and dries the Eighth they were annexed to the crown. dews. Drydes. Cowell. Such things as relax the skin are likewise TE'NTHLY. adv. [from tentb.] In the sudorifick; as warm water, friction, and tepid vapours. Arbutbasta tentle place. TENTIGINOUS. adj. (tentigo, Lat.] Stiff; Tepi'dity. n. s. (from tepid.) Luke. warmness. Ainsworth. stretched. TE'NTWORT. n. s.(adiantum album, Lat.] TE'Por. n. s. [tepor, Latin.) LukewarmA plant. Ainsworth. ness; gentle heat. The small-pox, mortal during such a season, TENUIFO'lious. adj. (tenuis and folium, grew more favourable by the repor and moisture Lat.] Having thin leaves. in April. Tenulity. n. s. [teruité, Fr. tenuitas, TERATO'LOGY. ». s. [z! 27. Quand niya from tenuis, Lat.] Bombast; affectation of false sublimity. X. Thinness; exility; smallness; minute Baila. ness ; not grossness. TERCE. n. s. (tierce, Fr. triens, Latin.) A Firs and pines mount of themselves in height vessel containing forty-two gallons of without side boughs; partly heat, and partly wine ; the third part of a butt or pipe: tenzity of juice, sending the sap upwards. Bacon, Consider the divers tigurings of the brain; the In the poet's verse strings ox filaments thereof; their difference in The king's fanie lies, go now deny his tierte. teruity, or apeness for inotion. Glanville. Alin.cut circulating through an animal body, TEREBI'N CHINATE. I adj. (terebinthine , Ben jousta. is reduced to an almost imperceptible tenuity before it can serve animal purpeses. drbuthnot. TEREBINTHIKE. I Fr. terebintbumi, At the height of four thousand miles the æther Lat.] Consisting of turpentine ; mixed is of that wonderful tenuity, that if a small with turpentine. sphere of common air, of an inch diameter, Salt scrum may be evacuated by urine, by should be expanded to the thinness of that æther, terebinthinates; as tops of pine in all our ale. it would more than take up the orb of Saturn, Floger which is many million times bigger than the To TE'REBRATE. q. a. (terebro, Latin.) carth, Bentley To bore ; to perforate; to pierce. 2. Poverty ; meanness. Not used. Consider the threefold effect of Jupiter's The rnuity and contempt of clergymen will soon let them see what a poor carcass they are, trisulk, ro burn, discuss, and terebrate. Brota. Earth-worms are completely adapted to their when parted from the infuence of that supre way of life, for terebrating the earthi , and creeze King Charles. macy. ing. The act of boring or piercing. Terebration of trees makes them prosper bet. ter; and also it maketh the fruit sweater and Brown, better, Arbutinska Ainsworth Derban. Bacon, TERGE'MINOUS. adj. [tergeminus, Lat.) day; the third is Trinity term, begin. Threefold. ning the Friday next after Trinity SunTERGIVERSA'Tion. m s. [tergum and day, and ending the Wednesday fortverso, Latin.) night after; the fourth is Michaelmas I. Shift ; subterfuge ; evasion. term, beginning the sixth of November, Writing is to be preferred before verbal con- (r, if that be Sunday, the next day, ferences, as being freer from passions and ter- after, and ending the twenty-eighth of giversations. Bisbop Bramhall. Cowell. 2. Change ; fickleness. The colonel, after all his bergiversations, lost The term suiters may speed their business: for the end of these sessions delivereth them his life in the king's service. Clarendor. TERM. T s. [terminus, Latin.) space enough to overtake the beginning of de terms. Carer I. Limit; boundary. Too long vacation hasten'd on his term. Milt. Corruption is a reciprocal to generation; and Those men employed as justices daily in term they two are as nature's two terms or bounda- time consult with one another. Hal, ries, and the guides to life and death. Bacon, What are these to those vast heaps of crimes 2. (terme, Fr.] The word by which a thing Which terms prolong? Drydek. is expressed. A word of art. To TERN. v. a. [from the noun.] To To apply notions philosophical to plebeian name; to call. terms, or to say, where the notions cannot fitly Mon term whaç is beyond the liinits of the ke reconciled, that there wanteth a term or nomenclature for it, be but shifts of ignorance. universe imaginary space, as if no body existed in it. Locke, Bacon. TE'RMAGANCY. n. s. [from termagant.] Those parts of nature into which the chaos was divided, they signified by dark and obscure Turbulence; tumultuousness. Aames, which we have expressed in their plain By a violent termagancy of temper, she may and proper terms. Burnet. never suffer him to have a moment's peace. In painting, the greatest beauties cannot always Barker. be expressed for want of terms. Dryden. TE'RMAGANT. adj. (rýn and magan, Had the Roman tongue continued vulgar, it Sax. eminently powerful.] would have been necessary, from the many terms 1. Tumultuous; turbulent. of art required in trade and in war, to have made "T was time to counterfeit, or that hot tere great additions to it. Swift. magant Scot had paid me scot and lot too. 3. Words; language. Shakspeare, Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's 2. Quarrelsome; scolding; furious. groan, The eldest was a termagant, imperious, prodiI would invent as bitter searching terms, gal, profligate wench. Arbuthnot, As cutst, as harsh, as horrible to hear. Sbaksp. TERMAGANT. n. s. A scold; a brawling God to Satan first his doom apply'd, Though in mysterious terms. Milton. turbulent woman. It appears in Shake 4. Condition; stipulation. speare to have been anciently used of Well, on my terms thou will not be my heir? men. It was a kind of heathen deity ex Dryden. tremely vociferous and tumultuous ini Enjoy thy love, since such is thy desire: the ancient farces and puppetshows. Live, though unhappy, live on any terms. Dryd. I would have such a fellow whipt for o'er Did religion bestow heaven, without any terms doing termugunt; it oùtherods Herod. Sbaksp. or conditions, indifferently upon all, there would For zeal's a dreadfal termugant, be no infidel. Bentley. That teaches saints to tear and rant. Hudibras. We Hattered ourselves with reducing France She threw his periwig into the fire: well, to our own terras by the want of money, but said he, thou art a brave termzgant. Tatler. have been still disappointed by the great sums The sprites of tiery termagunts in faine imported from America. Addison. Mount s. termine, old Fr.] Time for which any TERMER. 3. S. [from tern. One who and take a salamander's name. Pope. thing lasts; a limited time. I am thy father's spirit, travels up to the term. Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night. Nor have my title leaf on posts or walls, Or in cieft sticks advanced to make calls For hermers, or some clerk-like serving-man. time? Ben Jonon. No; let us draw her term of freedom out TERMINABLE. allj. [from terminare.). In its full length, and spin it to the last. Aldison. Limitable; tbat admits of bounds. b. [In law.] The time in which the tri- T, TE'MINATE. v. a.(termino, Lat. ter bunals are open to all that list to com- miner, Fr.] plain of wrong, or to seek their right 1. To bound; to limit. by course of law; the rest of the year Budies that are solid, separable, terminatei, is called vacation. Of these terms there and moveable, have all sorts of figures. Locke. are four in every year, during which 2. To put an end to: as, to terminate any matters of justice are dispatched: one difference. is called Hilary term, which begins the To TERMINATE. 2. n. To be limited; twenty-third of January, or, if that be to 'end; to have an end; to attain its Sunday, the next day following, and end. ends the twenty-first of February; an. These are to be reckoned with the heathen, other is called 'Easter terni, which be: with whom you know we undertook not to gins eighteen days after Easter, and meddle, treating ooly of the scripturv-election terminated in those to whom the scripture is reinds the Monday next after Ascension- Vealed. Hemmons. HP, |