English English Dictionary

To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.

Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.

A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.

Stamp; character; nature.

An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport, which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.

The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.

A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins.

A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.

One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time.

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber.

The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.

Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible.

Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.