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A European fresh-water fish (Tinca tinca, or T. vulgaris) allied to the carp. It is noted for its tenacity of life.

To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

curred by nonpayment or nonperformance; as, the tender of rent due, or of the amount of a note, with interest.

nch or stem; terminating; as, a terminal bud, flower, or spike. Terminal moraine. See the Note under Moraine. -- Terminal statue. See Terminus, n., 2 and 3. -- Terminal velocity. (a) The velocity acquired at the end of a body's motion. (b) The limit toward which the velocity of a body approaches, as of a body falling…

A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, or commentary. Chaucer.

A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.

so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

so called because it was the practice to write the text of a book in a large hand and the notes in a smaller hand.

result, or effect; -- usually preceded by so or such, sometimes by that. The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings. Milton. He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled. Tennyson.

.), a catalogue of musical works which, besides the title and other particulars, gives in notes the theme, or first few measures, of the whole work or of its several movements.

overned by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.

h of the French republican calendar, -- commencing July 19, and ending August 17. See the Note under Vendémiaire.

Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note under Electricity.

Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.

s, and thongs for shields, provide. Dryden. Thong seal (Zoöl.), the bearded seal. See the Note under Seal.

one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.

A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

The whinchat; -- so called from its note. [Prov. Eng.] Death tick. (Zoöl.) See Deathwatch.

A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local] He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors. Fuller.

A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. [Com. Cant, U.S.] Bartlett.