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inciple, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero. That al animals of the land are in their kind in the sea, . . . is a tenet very questionable. Sir T. Browne. The religious tenets of his family he had early renounced with contempt. Macaulay.…

Magnetism as affected or caused by the action of heat; the relation of heat to magnetism.

Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.

Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges. [Obs. Eng.]

A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for w

A small toucan.

Same as Trawl, n., 2.

See Tuck, n., 2.

To take a bonnet from; to take off one's bonnet; to uncover; as, to unbonnet one's head. Sir W. Scott.

With difficulty; scarcely. See Uneath. [Written also unethe, unneth, unnethe, unnethes, etc.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

With difficulty. See Uneath. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Impenetrable.

Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in ot…

A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture.

A device used by photographers in printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture the edges of which become opaque by intensible gradations.

A small villa. [R.]

A sprig or branch. [Archaic] Halliwell.

A kind of pleasure wagon, uncovered and with seats extended along the sides, designed to carry six or eight persons besides the driver.

A thin, light fabric of wool. [Written also woollenet, woolenette, and woollenette.]

Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes. Huxley.