tenter ground (tenter ground)

A ground or space for the erection and maintaining of tenters. Of or pertaining to the family Tenth red i nidæ. II. n. A member of the family Tenth red in i dæ; a saw-fly. zif ze tentifly take kepe & trewe be to-gadere, I wol winne our warisun, for i wot where the i are. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2258. Tentifly she kept hir fader dere. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 278. [ Tenth red i nidæ (ten-thre-din'i-dē), n . pl . [NL. (Leach, 1819), Tenthredo (stem taken as * Ten- thredin, but prop. Tenth red on- ) + -idæ .] An tentle (tent'les), a . important family of hymenopterous insects, tentive; heedle . [Scotch.] including the forms ordinarily known as saw- flies , and coextensive with the series Phyllo- phaga. The adults are distinguished by the two-jointed trochanters, the connate abdomen, two apical spurs to the front tibiæ, and a pair saws at the end of the abdomen of the female. The larvæ often resemble lep i- dopterous larvæ. They have six true legs, and often from twelve to sixteen prolegs, and are rarely covered with a white waxy secretion. Most species are leaf-feeders, i u- ing from eggs laid in slits cut in leaves by the female saws. I'll wander on, with tentle heed How never-halting moments speed, Till fate shall snap the brittle thread. Burns, To James Smith.