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[Eng. ten do (n), and Gr. tome a cutting.] Surgery: A subcutaneous knife, having a small oblanceolate blade on the end of a long stem, and used for severing deep-seated tendons without making a large incision or di ecting down to the spot. těn-drăc, s. [Native name.] Zool .: A small insectivorous mammal, from Madagascar, allied to the Tanrec, but separated on account of its dentition, and given generic rank under the name Ericulus. It is about two-thirds of the size of the Common Hedgehog, which it closely resembles in appearance. Its general tint is dusky, the spines being black, tipped with white or light red. Telfair's Tendrac, with the same habitat, constitutes another genus, Echinops, differing from Ericulus in dentition. It is about five inches long, brownish above, dingy white beneath, the upper surface closely covered with sharp spines. [RICE-TENDRAC.] Tendrac. těn-dril, *těn'-drěll, s . & a. [Shortened from Fr. ten drill ons = tendrils; O. F. tendron = a tender fellow, a tendril, from tendre tender (q. v.); cf. Ital. tenerume =cartilages, tendrils, from tenero= tender.] A. As substantive : 1. Bot. & Lit .: A curling and twining thread-like proce by which one plant clings to another body for the purpose of support. It may be a modification of the midrib, as in the pea; a prolongation of a leaf, as in Nepenthes; or a modification of the inflorescence, as in the vine. They have been divided into stem-tendrils and leaf-tendrils. Called also Cirrhus, and by the old authors Capreolus and Clavicula. Linnæus included tendrils under his fulcra. Tendril-bearing plants are distributed among ten orders "As the vine curls her tendrils ."- Milton : P. L., iv. 307. Darwin ( Origin of Species , ch. vii.) points out that the gradations from leaf-climbers to tendril bearers are wonderfully close, and that in each case the change is beneficial to the species in a high degree. 2. Fig.: Anything curling or spiral like a tendril. "The glo y tendrils of his raven hair." Byron: Lara , ii. 21. *B. As adj .: Clasping or climbing like a tendril; having tendrils. "Mingled with the curling growth Of tendril hops, that flaunt upon their poles." Dyer: Fleece, i. day, Thursday, and Friday respectively. The Gloria Patri , hymns, antiphons of the Ble ed Virgin, ., are omitted in token of sorrow. At the beginning of the office, fifteen lighted candles are placed on a triangular stand, and at the conclusion of each psalm one is put out, till a single candle is left at the top of the triangle. While the Benedictus is being sung, the lights on the high altar are extinguished, and then the single candle is hidden at the Epistle side, to be brought out at the conclu. sion of the office. The extinction of the lights (whence the name tenebræ) is said to figure the growing darkne of the world at the time of the Crucifixion, and the last candle is hidden for a time to signify that death could not really obtain dominion over Christ, though it appeared to do so. A noise is made at the conclusion of the office to symbolize the convulsions of nature at the death of Christ (Matt. xxvii. 45, 50-53; Mark xv. 33, 37, 38; Luke xxiii. 44. 45). *tě-ne-bri-cose, adj . [Lat. tenebricosus , from tenebræ =darkne .] Tenebrous, dark, gloomy. těn-e-brif'-Ic, a. [Lat. tenebræ =darkne , and facio to make.] Causing or producing darkne ; darkening. "Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time." Browning: Ring and Book, x. 1,761. těn-e-brif-Ic-ous, a . [TENEBRIFIC.] Causing or producing darkne ; tenebrific.