Chapter Tenonian to Tenuity of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.

Tent bed, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. — Tent caterpillar (Zoöl.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth Called also lackery caterpillar, and webworm.

Tent
(Tent), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tented; p. pr. & vb. n. Tenting.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. Shak.

We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.

W. Kittredge.

Tentacle
(Ten"ta*cle) n. [NL. tentaculum, from L. tentare to handle, feel: cf. F. tentacule. See Tempt.] (Zoöl.) A more or less elongated process or organ, simple or branched, proceeding from the head or cephalic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion.

Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

Tentacled
(Ten"ta*cled) a. (Zoöl.) Having tentacles.

Tentacular
(Ten*tac"u*lar) a. [Cf. F. tentaculaire.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

Tentaculata
(||Ten*tac`u*la"ta) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

Tentaculate
(Ten*tac"u*late Ten*tac"u*la`ted) a. (Zoöl.) Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.

Tentaculifera
(||Ten`ta*cu*lif"e*ra) n. pl. [NL.] (Zoöl.) Same as Suctoria, 1.

Tentaculiferous
(Ten`ta*cu*lif"er*ous) a. [Tentaculum + -ferous.] (Zoöl.) Producing or bearing tentacles.

Tentaculiform
(Ten`ta*cu"li*form) a. (Zoöl.) Shaped like a tentacle.

Tentaculite
(Ten*tac"u*lite) n. (Paleon.) Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

Tentaculocyst
(Ten*tac"u*lo*cyst) n. [Tentaculum + cyst.] (Zoöl.) One of the auditory organs of certain medusæ; — called also auditory tentacle.

Tentaculum
(||Ten*tac"u*lum) n.; pl. Tentacula [NL. See Tentacle.]

1. (Zoöl.) A tentacle.

2. (Anat.) One of the stiff hairs situated about the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs; a tactile hair.

Tentage
(Tent"age) n. [From Tent a pavilion.] A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

Tentation
(Ten*ta"tion) n. [L. tentatio: cf. F. tentation. See Temptation.]

1. Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

2. (Mech.) A mode of adjusting or operating by repeated trials or experiments. Knight.

Tentative
(Ten*ta"tive) a. [L. tentare to try: cf. F. tentatif. See Tempt.] Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. — Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.