Tenthredo (tenthre do)

[NL. (Linnæus, 1748), saw-flies next to the Cimbicinæ . [ tenticula , dim. tenticlet (ten'ti-kl), n. of tent a, a tent: see tent I.] A little tent. They were the tenticles or rather cabins and couches of their soldiers. Patten , Exped. to Scotland (1548). ( Davies .) tentift, a. Same as tentive . tentiflyt, adv. See tentively. tent i form (ten'ti-fôrm), a. Shaped like a tent; in entom., noting the mines of certain tineid larvæ, in which one or the other surface of the infested leaf is raised in a tent-like form. ten tig in oust (ten-tij'i-nus), a. [ Were you tentiginous , ha?... Did her silk's rustling move you? B. Jonson, Devil is an A , ii. 1. 2. Producing lasciviousne ; lascivious. Nothing affects the head so much as a tentiginous humour, repelled and elated to the upper region, found by daily practice to run frequently up into madne . Swift , Mechanical Operations of the Spirit, ii. tenting (ten'ting), a. [ Coverlids gold-tinted like the peach. Fell sleek about him in a you sand folds, Not hiding up an Apollonian curve Of neck and shoulder, nor the tenting swerve Of knee from knee, nor ankles pointing light; But rather giving them to the filled sight Officiously. Keats , Endymion, ii.