English English Dictionary

The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe.

The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.

A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.

The tenth part of the annual profit of every living in the kingdom, formerly paid to the pope, but afterward transferred to the crown. It now forms a part of the fund called Queen Anne's Bounty.

In a tenth manner.

Alt. of Tenthmetre

A unit for the measurement of many small lengths, such that 1010 of these units make one meter; the ten millionth part of a millimeter.

A group of Hymneoptera comprising the sawflies.

Attentive.

Attentively.

Stiff; stretched; strained.

Lustful, or pertaining to lust.

of Tent

One whose occupation it is to make tents.

A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

The awning or covering of a tent.

A kind of small fern, the wall rue. See under Wall.

To make thin; to attenuate.

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