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simple in his bishopric, and may maintain an action for the profits.1. Black. 283.

TENACITY, in natural philosophy, is that quality of bodiesby which they sustain a considerable pressure or force of any kindwithout breaking. It is the quality opposite to fragility or brittle-ness.

TENACULUM, in surgery,, an instrument used in amputation,for pulling out bleeding vessels that are to be tied by ligatures.See Surgery.

TENAILLES, and TENAILLIONS. See Fortifica-tion .

TENANT, in law, is one who holds lands or tenementsof some lord, or landlord, by rent, fealty, &c. See Te-nure.

TENBURY, or TEMBUEY, a town of England in Wor-cestershire, 130 miles N. W. of London . Lon. 2. 13. W. Lat.52. 16. N.

TENBY, orTENBIGH, a sea-port town of South Wales, inPembrokeshire, 233 miles W. of London . Lon. 5. 5. W. Lat.51. 42. N.

TENCH, in ichthvology. See Cyprinus..

TENCH’S ISLAND, an island in the South Pacific Ocean .Lon. 151.31. W. Lat. 1. 39. S.

TENDA, a county and province, of the duchy of Savoy,lately annexed to France , and included in the department of MontBlanc.

Tenda, the capital of the above county. Lon. 7. 45. E. Lat.44. io. N.

TENDER, in shipping, a small ship in the service of men ofwar, for carrying men, provisions, or any thing else that is neces-sary.

TENDO AGHILLIS, in anatomy, the tendon of Achilles ;a large tendon of the heel, so named from the tradition,'hat Achilles got his mortal wound in that part. See Ana-tomy.

TENDONS, in anatomy, are white, firm, and tenacious parts,contiguous to the muscles, and usually forming their extremities.See Anatomy.

TENEBRIOv in entomology, a genus of insects belonging tothe order of coleoptera. Antennae moniliform, the last joint beingroundish; thorax plano-convex, marginated; head projecting;elytra somewhat stiff. There are about 100 species. The larvaeof some live in damp places under ground among rubbish; ofothers in flour and different kinds of food, where they undergotheir metamorphosis. The perfect insects are very troublesomein houses; eating bread, meat, &c. They precipitately avoidthe light; resorting in troops to dark damp cellars, where putre-faction allures and nourishes them. They are all of a very darkgloomy appearance, from which circumstance they take theirname.

TENEDOS, in ancient geography, an island on the coast ofTroas , 40 stadia from the continent, and 80 in compass; with a®°gnominal dEolian town, and a temple of Apollo Smintheus.Lon. 20. 0. E. Lat. 29, 30. N.

TENERIFFE, an island of Africa , one of the Canaries, andthe most considerable for riches, trade, and extent. It lies S. ofthe island of Salvages, W. of the Grand Canary , N. of the island°f Gomera, and E. of Palma. It is of a triangular form, being*bout 45 m iies in length, and 20 in breadth; and in the centre isthe famous peak, called by the natives El Pico de Teyde, which

clear weather may be seen at the distance of 120 miles, like athin blue vapour very little darker than the sky. The most fre-T'enitd harbour is called Santa Cruz, which is on the S. side ofthe island, and where ships with good anchors and cables may bet a fe in all weathers. The height of the Peak of Teneriffe hasbeen variously estimated by different travellers. Dr. Halley al-lo 'vs but two miles and a quarter from the level of the sea to thesummit of the sugar-loaf, whilst the Spanish account of the, unary Islands, translated by Mr. Glas, in 1763, makes it noes s than five miles. Teneriffe lies in Lon. 17. 18. W. Lat. 28.

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2^^-NES, a sea port town of Algiers . Lon. 2. 0. E. Lat. 36

BEN ESMUS, in medicine, a name given by medical writers0 «t gomplaint which is a continual desire of going to stool,

but without any stool being ready to be voided. This is pro-perly no primary disease, but merely a symptomatic one, anddiffers in degree according to the disease on which it is an at-tendant.

TENGAN, a city of China , of the first rank, in the province ofHou-Quang, 150 miles S. of Pekin .

TENG-TCHOUEN, a town of China of the second rank, inthe province of Yun nan, 1182 miles S .W. of Pekin .

TENNASSEE, or TENNESSEE, one of the United States of North America , extending from 6°20' to 16° 30' Lon. W. andfrom 35° to 36° 30' Lat. N. This state was erected and consti-tuted in 1796, and is divided into three districts called Washing-ton, Hamilton, and Nero or Mero, which are subdivided into thefollowing thirteen counties, viz. Washington , Hawkins, Blount,Robertson, Sullivan, Knox, Grainger, Montgomery, Jefferson,Davidson, Carter, Sevier, and Sumner. The four first are inWashington district, the next five in Hamilton, and the rest inMero district. The climate of this state is mild and moderate.In the tract between Great Island and the Kanhawa, the summersare cool, and the air rather moist. Gn the W. side of the moun-tains the climate is much warmer, and soil better adapted to theproduction of tobacco, cotton, indigo, &c. In this part of thecountry lime-stone abounds.

TENNIS, [from tenez, Fr. or from Tennois, an ancienttown of France, ] a play at which a ball is driyen by aracket.

TENON, in building, &c. the square end of a piece of wood,or metal, diminished by one-third of its thickness, to be re-ceived into a hole in another piece, called a mortice,, for thejointing or fastening the two together. It is made into variousforms, square, dove-tailed for double mortices, and the like.

TENOR , orTENOUR, the purport or content of a writing orinstrument in law, &c.

Tenor, in music, the first mean or middle part, or that whichis the ordinary pitch of the voice, when neither raised to a treblenor lowered to a bass. See Music.

TENOS, in ancient geograghy, an island in the JEgean sea,near Andros, called also Ophiusa and Hydrussa, from its nume-rous fountains.

TENSE, in grammar, an inflection of verbs, whereby they aremade to signify or distinguish the circumstance of time in whatthey affirm. See Grammar.

TENSION, the state of a thing stretched. Thus animals sus-tain and move themselves by the tension of their muscles andnerves. A chord or string gives an acuter or deeper sound, as itis in a greater or less degree of tension, that is more or less stretch-ed or lightened. See Acoustics.

TENT , in war, is a pavilion or portable house. Tents any-made of canvas, for officers and soldiers to lie under when in thefield. The size of the officers-tent is not fixed; some regimentshave them of one size and some of another.

Tent, in surgery, a roll of lint made into the shape of a nailwith a broad flat head, chiefly used in deep wounds and ulcers.They are of service, not only in conveying medicines to the mostintimate recesses and sinuses of the wound, but to prevent the Jipsof the wound from uniting before it is healed from the bottom ;and by their assistance grumous blood, sordes, See. are readilyevacuated.

TENTER, TRIER , or PROVER, a machine used in thecloth-manufactory, to stretch out the pieces of cloth, stuff, See. oronly to make them even, and set them square.

TENTERDEN, a town of England in Kent , 24 miles S. W.of Canterbury , and 56 E. by S. of London. Lon. 0. 35. E. Lat.51. 12 N.

TENTHS, and FIRST-FRUITS OF SPIRITUAL PRE-FERMENTS, a branch of the king’s revenue. These were ori-ginally a part of the Papal usurpations over the clergy of this king-dom ; which were annexed to the revenue of the crown ; by sta-tute 26 Hen. VIII. c. 3, (confirmed by stat. 1. Eliz. c. 4.) QueenAnne granted her royal charter, which was confirmed by the sta-tute 2. Ann. c. i 1, whereby all the revenue of first fruits and tenthsis invested in trustees, for ever to form a perpetual fund for theaugmentation of poor livings. This is usually called QueenAnne ’s bounty; which has been still farther regulated by subse-quent statutes.

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