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Overseeing; superintending.

A superintendent. [R.]

Superintendent. [R.]

The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. [Colloq.]

In the United States navy, a first-class petty officer in charge in a fireroom. He "tends" water to the boilers, sees that fires are properly cleaned and stoked, etc. There is also a rating of chief water tender, who is a chief petty officer.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

tine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

y to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of the Pretender. Brande & C.

An omen; a portending. [Obs.]

Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law.

the body, the result of a morbid process. Cold abscess, an abscess of slow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe. E. Darwin.

ess of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness…

Tending to deceive; fraudulent; cheating. [Obs.] "An abusive treaty." Bacon.

German accent. "Beguiled you in a plain accent." Shak. "A perfect accent." Thackeray. The tender accent of a woman's cry. Prior.

writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically: (Mus.)

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech with a bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was a…

Tending to accomplish. [R.]