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- English Word Tenacity Definition That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
- English Word Tenacity Definition The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
- English Word Tenacula Definition of Tenaculum
- English Word Tenaculum Definition An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
- English Word Tenaculums Definition of Tenaculum
- English Word Tenacy Definition Tenaciousness; obstinacy.
- English Word Tenaille Definition An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
- English Word Tenaillon Definition A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
- English Word Tenancy Definition A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
- English Word Tenancy Definition A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
- English Word Tenant Definition One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
- English Word Tenant Definition One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
- English Word Tenant Definition To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
- English Word Tenant saw Definition See Tenon saw, under Tenon.
- English Word Tenantable Definition Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
- English Word Tenanted Definition of Tenant
- English Word Tenanting Definition of Tenant
- English Word Tenantless Definition Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.
- English Word Tenantry Definition The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.
- English Word Tenantry Definition Tenancy.