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The quality or state of being suspensible.

Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.

Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful. "In suspensive thoughts." Beaumont. "A suspensive veto." Macaulay. The provisional and suspensive attitude. J. Morley. Suspensive condition (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which…

A suspensory.

Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.

Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray.

termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

Stretched tightly; strained to stiffness; rigid; not lax; as, a tense fiber. The temples were sunk, her forehead was tense, and a fatal paleness was upon her. Goldsmith. -- Tense"ly, adv. -- Tense"ness, n.

The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.

Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible. Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

Made tensile. [R.]

The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. Dr. H. Mere.

e of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall.

The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.

Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction. A tensive pain from distension of the parts. Floyer.

A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

Tension. [Obs.] Bacon.