Tenfold
(Ten"fold`) a. & adv. In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold
More dreadful and deform.
Milton. Tenia
(||Te"ni*a) n. [NL.] See Tænia.
Tenioid
(Te"ni*oid) a. See Tænoid.
Tennantite
(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.
Tenné
(||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.
Tennis
(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.
Tennis
(Ten"nis), v. t. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [R.] Spenser.
Tennu
(Ten"nu) n. (Zoöl.) The tapir.
Ten-o'clock
(Ten"-o'*clock`) n. (Bot.) A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under Star.
Tenon
(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.
Tenon
(Ten"on), v. t. To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
