Tent, Tenter

etc. See under Tend, v. i. thing Tent, tent, n. (Surg.) A roll of lint or linen, used to To dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the for healing of a wound. — v. r. To probe; to search as exwith a tent. — Tentative, -ta-tiv, a. Trying: e aying; experimental.— Ten'tacle, -ta-kl, n. (Zobl.) A filiform proce or organ, proceeding from the head it of an invertebrate animal, as a polyp, snail, insect, parcrab, etc., being an organ of feeling, prehension, or; motion. - Tentac'ular, a. Pert, to tentacles; in the nature of a tentacle stiff or tentacles. -sil, of Tenth, etc. See under Ten. to j Tonuous, ten'u-us, a. Thin; slender; small; | minute; rare; subby ti 1 e; not dense. — The Tenuity, -nu'T-ti, n. Smallne in diamformeter; thinne , ap-" plied to a broad sub metal stance, and slender of ne , applied to one Tenuirosters. Teat, other rarenS^Iin^s: **** »^»?*Sj£ by EuroPean nuthatch; c, kingfisher. as of a fluid. — Ten'uiros'ter, -u-i-ros'ter, n. One of a tribe of inse orial? eve, term } in, Ice 5 Odd, t5ne, 6r 5 or perching birds, including those which have long, slender bill. Tenure. See under Tenable. 455