tentfly (tentfli)

A piece of canvas stretched acro the ridge-pole of a tent, and secured to the ground by ropes along its lower edges. tent-guy (tent'gi), n. A rope, additional to the usual tent-ropes, for the better securing of a tent in a storm. A guy usually pa es from the top of each upright to the ground at some dis tance in front and rear. tenth (tenth), a. and n. [ MLG. teinde = OHG. zehanto, MHG. zehente (zende), G. zehnte = Icel. tīund i = Sw. tionde = Dan. tiende = Goth. taihunda, tenth; as ten + -th2. Cf. tithe.] I. a. 1. Last in order of a series of ten; preceded by nine of the same kind; next in order after that which is ninth: an ordinal numeral.-2. Being one of ten equal portions or sections. Tenth nerve, in an at., the pneumogastric nerve, as that one of the cranial nerves which comes between the ninth (glo opharyngeal) and the eleventh (spinal acce ory) in that enumeration which counts twelve of these structures. II. n. 1. One of ten equal parts into which anything may be divided; a tithe.-2. In early Eng . law , a tithe of the rents of the year, or of movables, or both, granted or levied by way of tax. When a tenth was the rate fixed for towns and demesnes, that for the counties exclusive of towns and demesnes was usually a fifteenth. 3. Eccles., the tenth part of the annual profit of every living in England, formerly paid to the Pope, but by statute transferred to the crown, and afterward made a part of the fund called Queen Anne's bounty.-4. In music: (a) The interval, whether melodic or harmonic, between any tone and a tone one octave and two degrees distant from it; also, a tone distant by such an interval from a given tone; a compound third. (b) An organ-stop giving tones a tenth above the normal pitch of the s used; a decima, or double tierce. tenth dealt, adv. [ME. ten the del; part. IMG:content-0102.png:[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small] Imported Currant-worm ( Nematus ventricosus). a , male fly; b , female fly. (Cro es show natural sizes.) are pests to horticulture and agriculture, as the wheat-sawfly ( Cephus pygmæus ), the rose-sawfly ( Monostegia rosa), the o er-willow saw-fly ( Nematus ventral is ), and the imported currant-worm ( Nematus ventricosus ). See cuts under Hylotoma, Lyda, Securifera, and rose - sawfly.