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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Tent

Tĕnt, n.

noun

n. [Fr. tente, Pr., It., & Pg. tenda, Sp. tienda, L. Lat. tenta, for Lat. tentorium, properly something stretched out, from tendere, tensum, to stretch.]

  1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of canvas or other coarse cloth, stretched and sustained by poles;—used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
  2. [Fr. tente, It. tenta, from Lat. tentare, to handle, feel, try. See TEMP.] (Surg.) A roll of lint or linen, used to dilate an opening in the flesh, or to prevent the healing of an opening from which matter or other fluid is discharged.
  3. Attention; regard. [Obs.] Lydgate.
  4. Intention; design. [Obs.]

Tĕnt, n.

noun

n. [Sp. tinto, properly deep-colored, from teñir, to dye, Lat. tinctus, from tingere, to dye.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.

Tĕnt, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. TENTED; p. pr. & vb. n. TENTING.] To lodge as in a tent; to tabernacle. [Rare.] Shak.

Tĕnt, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [O. Fr. tenter, It. tentare.]

  1. To cover with tents; to pitch tents upon; as, a tented plain.
  2. To probe; to search as with a tent; as, to tent a wound.

I'll tent him to the quick. Shak.

  1. To keep open with a tent, or pledget. Wiseman.
  2. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.