English English Dictionary

Tendinous.

See Tenosynovitis.

Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.

A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.

Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

Alt. of Tendrilled

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils.

A tendril.

A tender; an offer.

See 1st and 2d Teen.

The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy.

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.

Tenebrific.

Tenebrous.

Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness.

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.

That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.

Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.