Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 18
Tenaille (n.) (Fort.) An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
Tenaillon (n.) (Fort.) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
Tenacies (n. pl. ) of Tenancy.
Tenancy (n.) (Law) （土地的）租佃；（房屋的）租用；租賃；租期 A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
Tenancy (n.) (Law) (O. Eng. Law) A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another. -- Blount. Blackstone. Wharton.
Tenancy (n.) An act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: {occupancy}, {tenancy}].
Tenancy or Tenantcy (n.) The state or condition of a tenant; the estate held by a tenant, as a tenant at will, a tenancy for years.
Tenant (n.) (Law) [C] 房客；佃戶；承租人；住戶，居住者 One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under {Tenement}, 2. -- Blount. Wharton.
Tenant (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant. "Sweet tenants of this grove." -- Cowper.
The happy tenant of your shade. -- Cowley.
The sister tenants of the middle deep. -- Byron.
{Tenant in capite} [L. in in + capite, abl. of caput head, chief.], or {Tenant in chief}, by the laws of England, one who holds immediately of the king. According to the feudal system, all lands in England are considered as held immediately or mediately of the king, who is styled lord paramount. Such tenants, however, are considered as having the fee of the lands and permanent possession. -- Blackstone.
{Tenant in common}. See under {Common}.
Tenanted (imp. & p. p.) of Tenant.
Tenanting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tenant.
Tenant (v. t.) 租，租賃 [H]；居住於 [H] To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Sir Roger's estate is tenanted by persons who have served him or his ancestors. -- Addison.
Tenants (n. pl.) of Tenant.
Tenant (n.) Someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: {tenant}, {renter}].
Tenant (n.) A holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease).
Tenant (n.) Any occupant who dwells in a place.
Tenant (v.) Occupy as a tenant.
Tenant (n.) Estates. One who holds or possesses lands or tenements by any kind of title, either in fee, for life, for years, or at will. See 5 Mann. & Gr. 54; S. C. 44 Eng. C. L. Rep. 39; 5 Mann. & Gr. 112; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Tenant (n.) Tenants may be considered with regard to the estate to which they are entitled. There are tenants in fee; tenants by the curtesy; tenants in dower; tenants in tail after. possibility of issue extinct; tenants for life tenants for years; tenants from year to year; tenants at Will; and tenants at suffrance. When considered with regard to their number, tenants are in severalty; tenants in common; and joint tenants. There is also a kind of tenant, called tenant to the praecipe. These will be separately examined.
Tenant (n.) Tenant in fee is he who has an estate of inheritance in the land. See Fee.
Tenant (n.) Tenant by the curtesy, is where a man marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance, that is, of lands and tenements in fee simple or fee tail; and has by her issue born alive, which was capable of inheriting her estate. In this case he shall, on the death of his wife, hold the lands for life, as tenant by the curtesy. Co. Litt. 29, a; 2 Lilly's Reg. 656; 2 Bl. Com. 126. See Curtesy.
Tenant (n.) Tenant in dower is where the husband of a woman is seised of an estate of inheritance, and dies; in this case, the wife shall have the third part of the lands and tenements of which he was seised at any time during the coverture, to hold to herself during the term of her natural life. 2 Bl. Com. 129; Com. Dig. Dower, A 1. See Dower.
Tenant (n.) Tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct, is where one is tenant in special tail, and a person from whose body the issue was to spring, dies without issue; or having issue, becomes extinct; in these cases the survivor becomes tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct. 2 Bl. Com. 124; and vide Estate tail after possibility of issue extinct.
Tenant (n.) Tenant for life, is he to whom lands or tenements are granted, or to which he derives by operation of law a title for the term of his own life, or for that of any other person, or for more lives than one.
Tenant (n.) He is called tenant for life, except when he holds the estate by the life of another, when he is called tenant er autre vie. 2 Bl. Com. 84; Com. Dig. Estates, E 1; Bac. Ab. Estates, See Estate for life; 2 Lilly's Reg. 557.
Tenant (n.) Tenant for years, is he to whom another has let lands, tenements and hereditaments for a term of certain years, or for a lesser definite period of time, and the lessee enters thereon. 2, Bl. Com. 140; Com. Dig Estates by grant, G.
Tenant (n.) A tenant for years has incident to, and unseparable from his estate, unless by special agreement, the same estovers to which a tenant for life is entitled. See Estate for life. With regard to the crops or emblements, the tenant for years is not, in general, entitled to them after the expiration of his term. 2 Bl. Com. 144. But in Pennsylvania, the tenant is entitled to the way going crop. 2 Binn. 487; 5 Binn. 285, 289 2 S. & R. 14. See 5 B. & A. 768; this Diet. Distress; Estate for years; Lease; Lessee; Notice to quit.; Underlease.
Tenant (n.) Tenant from year to year, is he to whom another has let lands or tenements, without any certain or determinate estate; especially if an annual rent be reserved Com. Dig. Estates, R 1. And when a person is let into possession as a tenant, without any agreement as to time, the inference is, that he is a tenant from year to year, until the contrary be proved; but, of course, such presumption may be rebutted. 3 Burr. 1609; 1 T. R. 163; 3 T. R. 16; 5 T. R. 471; 8 T. R. 3; 3 East 451. The difference between a tenant from year to year, and a tenant for years, is rather a distinction in words than in substance. Woodf., L. & J. 163.
Tenant (n.) Tenant at will, is when lands or tenements are let by one man to another, to have and th bold to him at the will of the lessor, by force of which the lessee is in possession. In this case the lessee is called tenant at will.
Tenant (n.) Every lease at will must be at the will of both parties. Co. Lit. 55; 2 Lilly's Reg. 555; 2 Bl. Com. 145., See Com. Dig. Estates, H 1; 12 Mass. 325; 1 Johns. Cas. 33; 2 Caines' C. Err. 314; 2 Caines' R. 169; 17 Mass. R. 282; 9 Johns. R. 331; 13 Johns. R. 235. Such a tenant may be ejected by the landlord at any time. 1 Watt's & Serg. 90.
Tenant (n.) Tenant at suffrance, is he who comes into possession by a lawful demise, and after his term is ended, continues the possession wrongfully, and holds over. Co. Lit. 57, b; 2 Leo. 46; 3 Leo. 153. See 1 Johns. Cas. 123; 5 Johns. R. 128; 4 Johns. R. 150; Id. 312.
Tenant (n.) Tenant in severalty, is he who holds land and tenements in his own right only, without any other person being joined or connected with him in point of interest, during his estate therein. 2 Bl. Com. 179.
Tenant (n.) Tenants in common, are such as hold by several and distinct titles, but by unity of possession. 2 Bl. Com. 161. See Estate in common; 7 Cruise, Dig. Ind. tit. Tenancy in Common; Bac. Abr. Joint-Tenants and Tenants in Common; Com. Dig. Abatement, E 10, F 6; Chancery, 3 V 4 Devise, N 8; Estates, K 8, K 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. vol. 1, 272, 315; 1 Vern. It. 353; Arch. Civ. Pl. 53, 73.
Tenant (n.) Tenants in common may have title as such to real or personal property; they may be tenants of a house, land, a horse, a ship, and the like.
Tenant (n.) Tenants in common are bound to account to each other; but they are bound to account only for the value of the property as it was when they entered, and not for any improvement or labor they put upon it, at their separate expense. 1 McMull. R. 298. Vide Estates in common; and 4 Kent, Com. 363. Joint tenants, are such as hold lands or tenements by joint tenancy. See Estate in joint tenancy; 7 Cruise, Dig. Ind. tit. Joint Tenancy; Bac. Abr. Joint Tenants and Tenants in Common; Com. Dig. Estates, K 1; Chancery, 3 V 1; Devise, N 7, N 8; 2 Saund. Ind. Joint Tenants; Preston on Estates, 2 Bl. Com. 179.
Tenant (n.) Tenants to the praecipe, is be against whom the writ of praecipe is brought, in suing out a common recovery, and must be the tenant or seised of the freehold. 2 Bl. Com. 362.
Tenantable (a.) Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
Tenantless (a.) Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. -- Shak.
Tenantry (n.) The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom.
Tenantry (n.) Tenancy. [Obs.] -- Ridley.
Tenantry (n.) Tenants of an estate considered as a group.
Tenant saw () See Tenon saw, under Tenon.
Tenon (n.) (Carp. & Join.) A projecting member left by cutting away the wood around it, and made to insert into a mortise, and in this way secure together the parts of a frame; especially, such a member when it passes entirely through the thickness of the piece in which the mortise is cut, and shows on the other side. Cf. Tooth, Tusk.
Tenon saw, A saw with a thin blade, usually stiffened by a brass or steel back, for cutting tenons. [Corruptly written tenant saw.] -- Gwilt.
Tench (n.) A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.
Tend (v. t.) 照管，照料；護理；理；【海】照料（纜繩，錨鏈）以免糾纏 To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
Tended (imp. & p. p.) of Tend.
Tending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tend.
Tend (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
Tend (v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
Tend (v. i.) 服侍招待[（+on/ upon/ to）]；【口】注意，關心 [（+to）] To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Tend (v. i.) To await; to expect.
Tend (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
Tend (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
Tendance (n.) 照顧；（總稱）僕從，隨從 The act of attending or waiting; attendance. [Archaic] -- Spenser.
The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. -- Tennyson.
Tendance (n.) Persons in attendance; attendants. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tendence (n.) Tendency. [Obs.]
Tendencies (n. pl. ) of Tendency
Tendency (n.) [C] 傾向；癖性；天分 [（+to/ toward）] [+to-v]；趨勢，潮流 [（+to/ toward）] [+to-v] Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. -- Addison.
In every experimental science, there is a tendency toward perfection. -- Macaulay.
Syn: Disposition; inclination; proneness; drift; scope; aim.
Tendency (n.) An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn: {inclination}, {disposition}, {tendency}].
Tendency (n.) An inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: {leaning}, {propensity}, {tendency}].
Tendency (n.) A characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" [syn: {tendency}, {inclination}].
Tendency (n.) A general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market" [syn: {tendency}, {trend}].
Tendency (n.) [ C ] (C1) （思想、行為等的）傾向 If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or like it.
// [ + to infinitive ] His tendency to exaggerate is well known.
Tendency (n.) [ C ] 趨勢 If there is a tendency for something to happen, it is likely to happen or it often happens.
// There is a tendency for unemployment to rise in the summer.
Tendency (n.) [ C ] 傾向 If there is a tendency to do something, it starts to happen more often or starts to increase.
// [ + to infinitive ] There is a growing tendency to regard money more highly than quality of life.
Tendentious (a.) 有支援某種立場的，有傾向的，宣傳性的 Having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion" [syn: {tendentious}, {tendencious}].
Tendentious (a.) Marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased.
// The book proved to be a tendentious account of the town's history, written to rescue the reputation of one of its less scrupulous founders.
Tender (n.) 照看者；看管者 One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Tender (n.) (Natu.) 附屬船，供應船，聯絡船 A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.
Tender (n.) 【鐵路】煤水車 A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water.
Tendered (imp. & p. p.) of Tender.
Tendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tender.
Tender (v. t.) (Law) 使變柔軟；使變脆弱；【古】溫柔地對待 To offer in payment or satisfaction of a demand, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture; as, to tender the amount of rent or debt.
Tender (v. t.) To offer in words; to present for acceptance.
You see how all conditions, how all minds, . . . tender down Their services to Lord Timon. -- Shak.
Tender (n.) (Law) An offer, either of money to pay a debt, or of service to be performed, in order to save a penalty or forfeiture, which would be incurred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.
Note: To constitute a legal tender, such money must be offered as the law prescribes. So also the tender must be at the time and place where the rent or debt ought to be paid, and it must be to the full amount due.
Tender (n.) Any offer or proposal made for acceptance; as, a tender of a loan, of service, or of friendship; a tender of a bid for a contract.
A free, unlimited tender of the gospel. -- South.
Tender (n.) The thing offered; especially, money offered in payment of an obligation. -- Shak.
{Legal tender}. See under {Legal}.
{Tender of issue} (Law), A form of words in a pleading, by which a party offers to refer the question raised upon it to the appropriate mode of decision. -- Burrill.
Tender (a.) 嫩的；柔軟的；敏感的，一觸就痛的 ；溫柔的，體貼的 [（+towards）] Easily impressed, broken, bruised, or injured; not firm or hard; delicate; as, tender plants; tender flesh; tender fruit.
Tender (a.) Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
Our bodies are not naturally more tender than our faces. -- L'Estrange.
Tender (a.) Physically weak; not hardly or able to endure hardship; immature; effeminate.
The tender and delicate woman among you. -- Deut. xxviii. 56.
Tender (a.) Susceptible of the softer passions, as love, compassion, kindness; compassionate; pitiful; anxious for another's good; easily excited to pity, forgiveness, or favor; sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. -- James v. 11.
I am choleric by my nature, and tender by my temper. -- Fuller.
Tender (a.) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! -- Shak.
Tender (a.) Careful to save inviolate, or not to injure; -- with of. "Tender of property." -- Burke.
The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. -- Tillotson.
Tender (a.) Unwilling to cause pain; gentle; mild.
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, Will never do him good. -- Shak.
Tender (a.) Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender expostulations; a tender strain.
Tender (a.) Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate; as, a tender subject. "Things that are tender and unpleasing." -- Bacon.
Tender (a.) (Naut.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.
Note: Tender is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, tender-footed, tender-looking, tender-minded, tender-mouthed, and the like.
Syn: Delicate; effeminate; soft; sensitive; compassionate; kind; humane; merciful; pitiful.
Tender (n.) Regard; care; kind concern. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Tender (v. t.) To have a care of; to be tender toward; hence, to regard; to esteem; to value. [Obs.]
For first, next after life, he tendered her good. -- Spenser.
Tender yourself more dearly. -- Shak.
To see a prince in want would move a miser's charity.
Our western princes tendered his case, which they counted might be their own. -- Fuller.
Tender (a.) Given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality; "a tender heart"; "a tender smile"; "tender loving care"; "tender memories"; "a tender mother" [ant: {tough}].
Tender (a.) Hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: {sensitive}, {sore}, {raw}, {tender}].
Tender (a.) Young and immature; "at a tender age".
Tender (a.) Having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" [syn: {affectionate}, {fond}, {lovesome}, {tender}, {warm}].
Tender (a.) Easy to cut or chew; "tender beef" [ant: {tough}].
Tender (a.) Physically untoughened; "tender feet" [syn: {tender}, {untoughened}] [ant: {tough}, {toughened}].
Tender (a.) (Used of boats) Inclined to heel over easily under sail [syn: {crank}, {cranky}, {tender}, {tippy}].
Tender (a.) (Of plants) Not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition; "tender green shoots".
Tender (n.) Something that can be used as an official medium of payment [syn: {tender}, {legal tender}, {stamp}].
Tender (n.) Someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another [syn: {attendant}, {attender}, {tender}].
Tender (n.) A formal proposal to buy at a specified price [syn: {bid}, {tender}].
Tender (n.) Car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water.
Tender (n.) A boat for communication between ship and shore [syn: {tender}, {ship's boat}, {pinnace}, {cutter}].
Tender (n.) Ship that usually provides supplies to other ships [syn: {tender}, {supply ship}].
Tender (v.) Offer or present for acceptance.
Tender (v.) Propose a payment; "The Swiss dealer offered $2 million for the painting" [syn: {offer}, {bid}, {tender}].
Tender (v.) Make a tender of; in legal settlements.
Tender (v.) Make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" [syn: {tender}, {tenderize}, {tenderise}].
Tender (n.) Contracts, pleadings. A tender is an offer to do or perform an act which the party offering, is bound to perform to the party to whom the offer is made.
Tender (n.) A tender may be of money or of specific articles; these will be separately considered. Sec. 1. Of the lender of money. To make la valid tender the following requisites are necessary: 1. It must be made by a person capable of paying: for if it be made by a stranger without the consent of the debtor, it will be insufficient. Cro. Eliz. 48, 132; 2 M. & S. 86; Co. Lit. 206.
Tender (n.) It must be made to the creditor having capacity to receive it, or to his authorized agent. 1 Camp. 477; Dougl. 632; 5 Taunt. 307; S. C. 1 Marsh. 55; 6 Esp. 95; 3 T. R. 683; 14 Serg. & Rawle, 307; 1 Nev. & M. 398; S. C. 28 E. C. L. R. 324; 4 B. & C. 29 S. C. 10 E. C. L. R. 272; 3 C. & P. 453 S. C. 14 E. C. L. R. 386; 1 M. & W. 310; M. & M. 238; 1 Esp. R. 349 1 C. & P. 365
Tender (n.) The whole sum due must be offered, in the lawful coin of the United States, or foreign coin made current by law; 2 N. & M. 519; and the offer must be unqualified by any circumstance whatever. 2 T. R. 305; 1 Campb. 131; 3 Campb. 70; 6 Taunt. 336; 3 Esp. C. 91; Stark. Ev. pt. 4, page 1392, n. g; 4 Campb. 156; 2 Campb. 21; 1 M. & W. 310. But a tender in bank notes, if not objected to on that account, will be good. 3 T. R. 554; 2 B. & P. 526; 1 Leigh's N. P. c. 1, S. 20; 9 Pick. 539; see 2 Caines, 116; 13 Mass. 235; 4 N. H. Rep. 296; 10 Wheat 333. But in such case, the amount tendered must be what is due exactly, for a tender of a five dollar note, demanding change, would not be a good tender of four dollars. 3 Campb. R. 70; 6 Taunt. R. 336; 2 Esp. R. 710; 2 D. & R. 305; S. C. 16 E. C. L. R. 87. And a tender was held good when made by a check contained in a letter, requesting a receipt in return which the plaintiff sent back demanding a larger sum, without objecting to the nature of the tender. 8 D. P. C. 442. When stock is to be tendered, everything must be done by the debtor to enable him to transfer it, but it is not absolutely requisite that it should be transferred. Str. 504, 533, 579.
Tender (n.) If a term had been stipulated in favor of a creditor, it must be expired; the offer should be made at the time agreed upon for the performance of the contract if made afterwards, it only goes in mitigation of damages, provided it be made before suit brought. 7 Taunt. 487; 8 East, R. 168; 5 Taunt. 240; 1 Saund. 33 a, note 2. The tender ought to be made before daylight is entirely gone. 7 Greenl. 31.
Tender (n.) The condition on which the debt was contracted must be fulfilled.
Tender (n.) The tender must be made at the place agreed upon for the payment, or, if there be no place appointed for that purpose, then to the creditor or his authorized agent. 8 John. 474; Lit. Sel. Cas. 132; Bac. Ab. h.t. c.
Tender (n.) When a tender has been properly made, it is a complete defence to the action but the benefit of a tender is lost, if the creditor afterwards demand the thing due from the debtor, and the latter refuse to pay it. Kirby, 293.
Tender (n.) Of the tender of specific articles. It is a rule that specific articles maybe tendered at some particular place, and not, like money, to the person of the creditor wherever found. When no place is expressly mentioned in the contract, the place of delivery is to be ascertained by the intent of the parties, to be collected from the nature of the case and its circumstances. If, for example, the contract is for delivery of goods from the seller to the buyer on demand, the former being the manufacturer of the goods or a dealer in them, no place being particularly named, the manufactory or store of the seller will be considered as the place intended, and a tender there will be sufficient. When the specific articles are at another place at the time of sale, that will be the place of delivery. 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 609 4 Wend. 377; 2 Applet. 325.
Tender (n.) When the goods are cumbrous, and the place of delivery is not designated, nor to be inferred from the circumstances, it is presumed that it was intended that they should be delivered at any place which the creditor might reasonably appoint; if the creditor refuses, or names an unreasonable place, the debtor may select a proper place, and having given notice to the creditor, deliver the goods there. 2 Kent, Comm. 507; 1 Greenl. 120; Chip. on Contr. 51 13 Wend. 95; 2 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 610. Vide, generally, 20 Vin., Ab. 177; Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Sell. 314; Com. Dig. Action upon the case upon Assumpsit, H 8 Condition, L 4 Pleader, 2 G 2-2 W, 28,49-3 K 23-3 M 36; Chipm, on Contr. 31, 74; Ayl. Pand. B. 4, t. 29; 7 Greenl. 31 Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Tender (a.) (Gentle) (C2) 溫柔的；溫情的；關懷的；慈愛的 Gentle, loving, or kind.
// A tender look/ smile.
// What you need is some tender loving care.
Tender ( a.) (Painful) (Of part of the body) （身體部位）疼痛的，一觸即痛的 Painful, sore, or uncomfortable when touched.
// My arm was very tender after the injection.
Tender (a.) (Soft) (C2) (Of meat or vegetables) （肉或蔬菜）嫩的，軟的 Easy to cut or chew (= crush with the teeth).
// My steak was beautifully tender.
Tender (a.) (Soft) （植物）嬌嫩的，不抗寒的 Tender plants are easily damaged by cold weather.
Tender (a.) (Young) (C2) (Literary) 年幼的；未成熟的 Y oung.
// He was sent off to boarding school at the tender age of seven.
Tender (v.) [ I ] 投標 If you tender for a job, you make a formal offer to do it for a stated price.
// Five companies have tendered for the hospital contract.
Tender (v.) [ I ] (Specialized) (Finance & economics) 出價購買（股票等） If you tender for something such as shares, you make a formal offer to buy them for a stated price.
Tender (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 提出；提供 To give or offer something.
// Please tender the exact fare.
// The health minister has tendered her resignation (= has offered to leave her job).
Tender ( n.) [ C ] (Offer) (Mainly UK US usually bid) 投標（書） A written or formal offer to supply goods or do a job for an agreed price.
// The council has invited tenders for the building contract.
Tender ( n.) [ C ] (Specialized) (Finance & economics) (M ainly UK US usually bid) （期貨交易中的）交割意向通知書 A written offer to buy or sell shares in a company.
Put sth out to tender (UK) 對…招標 If you put work out to tender, you ask people to make offers to do it.
// Education departments in all the prisons are being put out to tender.
Tender (n.) [ C ] (Container) (Specialized) (E ngineering) （尤指掛在火車頭後的）煤水車；勤務船，供給船 A vehicle used for transporting water, wood, or coal, especially one that is pulled behind a railway engine or used by the fire service.
Tender (n.) [ C ] (Boat) (Specialized) ( Sailing) （用來在大船與陸地間運送人員或貨物的）小船 A small boat that is used for transporting people or goods from the land to a larger boat or from the larger boat to the land.
// The SS Nomadic was a tender to the ill-fated liner, Titanic.
Tender (n.) [ C ] (Chicken) [US] （通常塗有麵包屑的）雞胸脯肉；雞裡脊肉 A small piece of chicken breast meat, usually breaded and fried, or a cut of chicken from the tenderloin
// Chicken tenders.
Tenderfoot (n.) 【美】（拓荒地等的）新來者；尚無經驗的人，新手 A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U. S.]
Tenderfoot (n.) See Boy scout.
Boy scout (ph.) 童子軍 Orig., A member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of America" the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class scout, and first-class scout.
Tenderfoot (n.) An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living).
Tender-hearted (a.) . 心地溫和的；軟心腸的 Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n.
Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. -- 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted. -- Eph. iv. 32.
Tender-hefted (a.) Having great tenderness; easily moved.
Tenderling (n.) One made tender by too much kindness; a fondling. [R.] -- W. Harrison (1586).
Tenderling (n.) (Zool.) One of the first antlers of a deer.
Tenderloin (n.) （牛、豬）腰部軟肉，裡脊肉，嫩腰肉；遊樂場（奢華的，可大撈油水的）；油水區 A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
Tenderloin (n.) In New York City, the region which is the center of the night life of fashionable amusement, including the majority of the theaters, etc., centering on Broadway. The term orig. designates the old twenty-ninth police precinct, in this region, which afforded the police great opportunities for profit through conniving at vice and lawbreaking, one captain being reported to have said on being transferred there that whereas he had been eating chuck steak he would now eat tenderlion. Hence, in some other cities, a district largely devoted to night amusement, or, sometimes, to vice.
Tenderloin (n.) A city district known for its vice and high crime rate [syn: combat zone, tenderloin].
Tenderloin (n.) The tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column [syn: tenderloin, undercut].
Tenderly (adv.) 溫和地，柔和地，體貼地，可憐地 In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly.
Tenderness (n.) 柔軟；溫和；親切；心軟難處理 The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Tendinous (a.) Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon.
Tendinous (a.) Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.
Tendinous (a.) Consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon [syn: tendinous, sinewy].
Tendment (n.) Attendance; care. [Obs.]
Tendon (n.) (Anat.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.
Tendon reflex (Physiol.), A kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally a sign of disease. See Knee jerk, under Knee.
Tendon (n.) A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment [syn: tendon, sinew].
Tendonous (a.) Tendinous.
Tendosynovitis (n.) See Tenosynovitis.
Tendosynovitis (n.) Inflammation of a tendon and its enveloping sheath [syn: tenosynovitis, tendosynovitis, tendonous synovitis].
Tendrac (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small insectivores of the family Centetidae, belonging to Ericulus, Echinope, and related genera, native of Madagascar. They are more or less spinose and resemble the hedgehog in habits. The rice tendrac (Oryzorictes hora) is very injurious to rice crops. Some of the species are called also tenrec.
Tendrac (n.) Small often spiny insectivorous mammal of Madagascar; resembles a hedgehog [syn: tenrec, tendrac].
Tendril (n.) (Bot.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as in the passion flower; stipules, as in the genus Smilax; or the end of a leaf, as in the pea.
Tendril (a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril. [R.] -- Dyer. Tendriled
Tendril (n.) Slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support.
Tendriled (a.) Alt. of Tendrilled.
Tendrilled (a.) (Bot.) Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." -- Southey.
Tendron (n.) A tendril. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Tendry (n.) A tender; an offer. [Obs.] -- Heylin.
Tene (n. & v.) See 1st and 2d Teen. [Obs.]
Tenebrae (n.) (R. C. Ch.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.
Tenebricose (a.) Tenebrous; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]
Tenebrific (a.) Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. -- Burns.
Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. -- R. Browning.
Tenebrific (a.) Dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious].
Tenebrificous (a.) Tenebrific.
Authors who are tenebrificous stars. -- Addison.
Tenebrious (a.) Tenebrous. -- Young.
Tenebrious (a.) Dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious].
Tenebrose (a.) Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.
Tenebrosity (n.) The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. -- Burton.
Tenebrous (a.) Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n.
The most dark, tenebrous night. -- J. Hall (1565).
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. -- Longfellow.
Tenebrous (a.) Dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious].
Tenement (n.) (Feud. Law) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Tenement (n.) (Common Law) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free tenements or frank tenements.
The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a
"tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure."
-- Blackstone.
Tenement (n.) A dwelling house; a
building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a
building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
Tenement (n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece? -- Locke.
Tenement (n.) A tenement house.
Tenement house, commonly, A dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often applied to apartment houses occupied by poor families, often overcrowded and in poor condition.
Syn: House; dwelling; habitation.
Usage: Tenement, House. There may be many houses under one roof, but they are completely separated from each other by party walls. A tenement may be detached by itself, or it may be part of a house divided off for the use of a family. In modern usage, a tenement or tenement house most commonly refers to the meaning given for tenement house, above.
Tenement (n.) A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards [syn: tenement, tenement house].
Tenemental (a.) Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants.
Tenementary (a.) Capable of being leased; held by tenants.
Tenent (n.) A tenet.
Teneral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.
Teneriffe (n.) A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.
Tenerity (a.) Tenderness.
Tenesmic (a.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.
Tenesmus (n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.
Tenet (n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero.
Tenfold (a. & adv.) In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated.
Tenia (n.) See Taenia.
Tenioid (a.) See Taenoid.
Tennantite (n.) (Min.) 【礦】砷黝銅礦 A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper.
Tenn'e (n.) [Cf. {Tawny}.] (Her.) A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.