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Webster 1913 Edition
Tent
1.
Attention; regard, care.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Lydgate.
2.
Intention; design.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Tent
,Verb.
T.
To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Halliwell.
Tent
,Verb.
T.
[OF.
tenter
. See Tempt
.] To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent;
as, to
. Used also figuratively. tent
a woundI’ll
tent
him to the quick. Shakespeare
Tent
,Noun.
[F.
tente
. See Tent
to probe.] (Surg.)
(a)
A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
(b)
A probe for searching a wound.
The
To the bottom of the worst.
tent
that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.
Shakespeare
Tent
,Noun.
1.
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, – used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
Within his
tent
, large as is a barn. Chaucer.
2.
(Her.)
The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Tent bed
, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
– Tent caterpillar
(Zool.)
, any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth (
Clisiocampa Americana
). Called also lackery caterpillar
, and webworm
.Tent
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tented
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tenting
.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle.
Shak.
We 're
tenting
to-night on the old camp ground. W. Kittredge.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tent
TENT
,Noun.
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, particularly soldiers in camp. The wandering Arabs and Tartars lodge in tents. The Israelites lodged in tents forty years, while they were in the desert.2.
In surgery, 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.TENT
,Noun.
TENT
,Verb.
I.
TENT
,Verb.
T.
I'll tent him to the quick.
1.
To keep open with a tent.