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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.

Of or pertaining to a tentacle or tentacles.

A division of Ctenophora including those which have two long tentacles.

Having tentacles, or organs like tentacles; tentacled.

Same as Suctoria, 1.

Producing or bearing tentacles.

Shaped like a tentacle.

Any one of numerous species of small, conical fossil shells found in Paleozoic rocks. They are supposed to be pteropods.

One of the auditory organs of certain medusæ; -- called also auditory tentacle.

A tentacle.

A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

Trial; temptation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental. "A slow, tentative manner." Carlyle. -- Ten*ta"tive*ly, adv.

Covered with tents.

A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be…

As much, or as many, as a tent will hold.

The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe. Shak.

In a tenth manner.