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Tender feeling; fondness. [Obs., except as a French word]

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.

See 1st and 2d Teen. [Obs.]

The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

Tenebrific. Authors who are tenebrificous stars. Addison.

Tenebrous. Young.

Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.

Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free or frank tenements. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of posses…

Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.

Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.

A tenet. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature coloring.

A white wine resembling Madeira in taste, but more tart, produced in Teneriffe, one of the Canary Islands; -- called also Vidonia.