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[Fr.tanné.] [TAWNY.] Her.: A color, a kind of chestnut or orange-brown color. It is seldom used in coat-armor. In engraving it is represented by diagonal lines, drawn from the sinister chief point, and traversed by horizontal ones. těn-ner, s. [Eng. ten; -er.) A ten-dollar note. ( Slang.) Těn-nes-see', s . [Am. Indian River with the Big Bend. Named from Tenne ee river.) One of the States of the U. S. A. Bounded W. by Mi ouri and Arkansas, from which it is separated by the Mi i ippi river, N. by Kentucky and Virginia, E. by North Carolina, from which it is separated by the Alleghany mountains, and S. by Mi i ippi, Alabama and Georgia. Area, 42,050 square miles. Originally Tenne ee formed a part of the po e ions of North Carolina, which State ceded it to the general govern ment in 1784, but afterwards revoked the grant, when the inhabitants attempted to form an independent State under the name of Franklin i a. It was afterwards ceded to the U. S. government and formed a part of the Southwestern Territory tillits admi ion as a State, June 1, 1796. Principal agricultural products, corn, oats, tobacco, cotton, hay and peanuts. The principal minerals are coal, iron, tenorist