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A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

Valued or sold at ten pence; as, a tenpenny cake. See 2d Penny, n.

A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins. [U. S.]

bon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.

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.

te 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.

kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.

ic region of invertebrate animals, being either an organ of sense, prehension, or motion. Tentacle sheath (Zoöl.), a sheathlike structure around the base of the tentacles of many mollusks.

Having tentacles.