Chapter Templars to Term Time of our Universities of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Henry VI., i. 3.

“ `I daur you to touch him,' spreading abroad her long and muscular fingers, garnished with claws, which a vulture might have envied. `Ill set my ten commandments on the face of the first loop that lays a finger on him.”- Sir W. Scott: Waverley, chap. xxx.

Tench is from the Latin tinc-a, so called, says Aulus Gellius, because it is tincta (tinted).

Tend in the Eyes Dutch, “Iemand naar de oogen te zien. ” The English equivalent is, “to wait on his nod” or beck.

“Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,
So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes.”
Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 2.

Tendon (See Achilles. )

Tenglio A river in Lapland on whose banks roses grow.

“I was surprised to see upon the banks of this river roses of as lovely a red as any that are in our own gardens.”- M. de Maupertuis.

Teniers Malplaquet, in France, famous for the victory of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene over the French under Marshal Villars on September 11, 1709.

“Her courage tried
On Teniers' dreadful field.”
Thomson: Autumn.

   The Scottish Teniers. Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).

Tenner (A). A ten-pound note. A “fiver” is a five-pound note.

Tennis Ball of Fortune Pertinax, the Roman emperor, was so called. He was first a seller of charcoal, then a schoolmaster, then a soldier, and lastly an emperor, but in three months he was dethroned and murdered.

Tennyson (Alfred). Bard of Arthurian Romance. His poems on the legends of King Arthur are- (1) The Coming of Arthur; (2) Geraint and Enid; (3) Merlin and Vivien; (4) Lancelot and Elaine; (5) The Holy Grail; (6) Pelleas and Ettare; (7) Guinevere; (8) The Passing of Arthur. Also The Morte d' Arthur, Sir Galahad, The Lady of Shallott. (1810-1892.)

Tenpenny Nails Very large nails, 1,000 of which would weigh 10 lbs. Four-penny nails are those which are much smaller, as 1,000 of them would weigh only 4 lbs.; two-penny nails, being half the size, 1,000 of them would weigh only 2 lbs. Then we come to the ounce nails, 1,000 weighing only 8, 12, or 16 ounces, the standard unit being always 1,000 nails. Penny is a corruption of pounder, pouner, puner, penny, as two-penny nails, four-penny nails, ten-penny nails, etc., according to the weight of 1,000 of them.

Tenson A subdivision of the chanzos or poems of love and gallantry by the Troubadours. When the public jousts were over, the lady of the castle opened her “court of love,” in which the combatants contended with harp and song.

Tent Father of such as dwell in tents. Jabal. (Genesis iv. 20.)

Tent (Skidbladnir's) would cover a whole army, and yet fold up into a parcel not too big for the pocket. (Arabian Nights.)

Tenterden Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands. The reason alleged is not obvious; an apparent non-sequitur. Mr. More, being sent with a commission into Kent to ascertain the cause of