English English Dictionary

To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively.

A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.

A probe for searching a wound.

A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.

The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.

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.

Having tentacles.

of Tentaculum

Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

Alt. of Tentaculated

Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.

Same as Suctoria, 1.

Producing or bearing tentacles.

Shaped like a tentacle.

Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

One of the auditory organs of certain medusae; -- called also auditory tentacle.

A tentacle.

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.