tense2 (tens)

t.; pret. and pp. tensed, ppr. tensing. [ [Rare.] Gladstone. Between 1832 and 1865 the ten - pounders rose to 463,000. 2. Something that weighs ten pounds.-3. The big-eyed herring, Elops saurus . See cut under Elops. tenrec, tanrec (ten'rek, tan'rek), n. [Malagasy.] 1. A Madagascar hedgehog; any insectivorous mammal of the family Centetidæ, as Tenrec ( Centetes ecaudatus ). Centetes ecaudatus, Ericulus spinosus, and Echi nops telfairi. The rice-tenrec is Oryzoryctes hova. Also tang. See cut under sokinah. These animals are highly characteristic of the Madagascar re Tenrec (Ericulus spinosus). (of the different family Erinaceide -compare cut under gion. They superficially resemble ordinary hedgehogs Erinaceus ), but their structure is peculiar, and their nearest relatives are the West Indian solenodons. 2. [ cap.] [NL. (Lacépède, 1798), and in the form Tanrec us (Desmarest, 1825).] A generic name for the species of Centetidæ: same as Centetes in a former broad sense. [Not used.] tensel (tens), n. [Formerly also tence; I warne yow wel, it is to seken ever, That future temps hath maad men to di ever In trust therof from al that ever they hadde. Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 322. 2. In gram .: (a) Time. (b) One of the forms, or sets of forms, which a verb takes in order to indicate the time of action or of that which is affirmed: extended also to forms indicating the nature of the action as continued, completed, and the like. In English this is effected either by internal vowel change, as in sing, sang, lead, led ; by terminational inflection, as in love , loved ; or, in verb-phrases, by means of auxiliary words, as in did love , have loved, will love. We may say now that we have Treasurers of all Tenses, for there are four living, to wit the Lords Manchester, Middle sex, Marl borough, and the newly chosen. Howell, Letters, I. v. 2. At prime tense, at the first time; at first; instantly. My silf I knowe fulle wel Daungere, And how he is feers of his cheere, At prime temps Love to manace. was observed. If, instead of a symmetrical movement, the other hand made a maximal effort of tensing the extensor instead of the flexor muscles of the hand, no constant effect Mind, IX. 109. tensele (tens'les), a. [ tense1 + -le .] Having no tense: as, a tensele verb. Cla ical Rev. , III. 9.