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- English Word Tenfold Definition In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
- English Word Tenia Definition See Taenia.
- English Word Tenioid Definition See Taenoid.
- English Word Tennantite Definition A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
- English Word Tenne Definition A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.
- English Word Tennis Definition A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
- English Word Tennis Definition To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis.
- English Word Tennu Definition The tapir.
- English Word Tenon Definition A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
- English Word Tenon Definition To cut or fit for insertion into a mortise, as the end of a piece of timber.
- English Word Tenonian Definition Discovered or described by M. Tenon, a French anatomist.
- English Word Tenor Definition A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.
- English Word Tenor Definition That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
- English Word Tenor Definition Stamp; character; nature.
- English Word Tenor Definition 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.
- English Word Tenor Definition 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.
- English Word Tenor Definition A person who sings the tenor, or the instrument that play it.
- English Word Tenosynovitis Definition Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.
- English Word Tenotome Definition A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.
- English Word Tenotomy Definition The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.