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ess portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.

A tendril. [Obs.] Holland.

A tender; an offer. [Obs.] Heylin.

The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

; to give heed to; to regard. [Obs.] The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.

Attention; regard; careful application. [Obs.] Till I come, give attendance to reading. 1 Tim. iv. 13.

The quality of attending or accompanying; attendance; an attendant. [Obs.]

Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who, or that which, attends.

An attendant circumstance. [Obs.] The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.

A barkeeper.

baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak.

To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

ut much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut. ii. 9. In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor. Shak.

n antagonist; a contestant. [Obs.] In all notable changes and revolutions the contendents have been still made a prey to the third party. L'Estrange.

One who contends; a contestant.

A female contestant. [R.]

Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. (Logic).