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189 words match “TENT”

TWENTIETH a. 4 definitions
Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.
UNDER prep. 8 definitions
at a vessel is using both means of propulsion. (b) (Mil.) Provided with, or sheltered in, tents. -- Under fire, exposed to an enemy's fire; taking part in a battle or general engagement. -- Under foot. See under Foot, n. -- Under ground, below the surface of the ground. -- Under one's signature, with one's signatur…
UNTENT v.
To bring out of a tent. [R.] Shak.
UNTENTED a. 2 definitions
Having no tent or tents, as a soldier or a field.
USE v. 15 definitions
om that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room. South. Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp. Ex. xxxiii. 7 (Rev. Ver.)
VESTLET n.
These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name.
VIKING n.
ews from among the Northmen, who plundered the coasts of Europe in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. Of grim Vikings, and the rapture Of the sea fight, and the capture, And the life of slavery. Longfellow.
VILE a. 2 definitions
n vile raiment. James ii. 2. The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more vile than the science of physic. Ridley. The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing. Abp. Abbot.
ZOANTHUS n.
united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored.
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