<B>tenderfoot, </B>noun, pl. <B>-foots</B> or <B>-feet.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a newcomer to the pioneer life of the western United States. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person not used to rough living and hardships. <BR> <I>Ex. The tenderfoot, new to the sounds and solitude of the Canadian timber belt, wondered if indeed an occasional hotdog stand or friendly filling station might not be desirable when the night closed in (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) an inexperienced person; beginner. (SYN) tyro, novice. <DD><B> 4. </B>Also, <B>Tenderfoot.</B> a beginning member of the Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts. </DL>
<A NAME="tenderhearted">
<B>tender-hearted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> kindly; sympathetic; easily moved, as by pity or sorrow. <BR> <I>Ex. a tender-hearted smile.</I> (SYN) compassionate. adv. <B>tender-heartedly.</B> noun <B>tender-heartedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tenderize">
<B>tenderize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make soft or tender. <BR> <I>Ex. to tenderize meat by pounding.</I> noun <B>tenderization.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tenderizer">
<B>tenderizer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any substance which tenderizes meat by breaking down the meat fibers. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small, ridged mallet for pounding meat to make it tender before cooking. </DL>
<A NAME="tenderloin">
<B>tenderloin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tender part of the loin of beef or pork. <DD><B> 2. </B>a cut of beef or pork consisting of this part. </DL>
<A NAME="tenderloin">
<B>Tenderloin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a city district or section that includes the great mass of theaters, hotels, and restaurants, and that is noted for the graft paid to the police for protection of vice. <DD><B> 2. </B>(originally) a police district in New York City where the large amount of graft available was supposed to enable a corrupt policeman to live on a diet of tenderloin. </DL>
<A NAME="tenderloindistrict">
<B>tenderloin district</B> or <B>section,</B> <B>=Tenderloin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="tenderminded">
<B>tender-minded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>impractical. <BR> <I>Ex. He belongs in William James's well-known division of the human race, to the tender-minded (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>tenderhearted. <BR> <I>Ex. To be tender-minded does not become a sword (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenderness">
<B>tenderness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the quality or condition of being tender. <DD><B> 2. </B>a tender feeling. <BR> <I>Ex. She has a tenderness for cats.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenderoffer">
<B>tender offer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a public offer to buy a company's stock at a price that usually exceeds the market price, for the purpose of gaining a controlling interest in the company. <BR> <I>Ex. The tender offer ... has clearly replaced the old-fashioned proxy fight as the favorite weapon for forcible corporate takeovers (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenderometer">
<B>tenderometer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for measuring the tenderness of various types of foods. <BR> <I>Ex. The percentages of intramuscular fat were then related to tenderness, as measured both objectively, using a tenderometer, and subjectively, using a panel of tasters (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tendinitis">
<B>tendinitis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> inflammation of a tendon; tenonitis. <BR> <I>Ex. Russ has bursitis in his elbow, tendinitis in his knee, and strained ligaments in his ankle (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tendinous">
<B>tendinous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like a tendon. <DD><B> 2. </B>consisting of tendons. </DL>
<A NAME="tendon">
<B>tendon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tough, strong band or cord of tissue that joins a muscle to a bone or some other part and transmits the force of the muscle to that part; sinew. <BR> <I>Ex. They transplant tendons to enable the crippled to walk, and graft skin over tissue mutilated by fire, gunshot, and auto accident (Arthur J. Snider).</I> (SYN) ligament. </DL>
<A NAME="tendonofachilles">
<B>tendon of Achilles,</B> <B>=Achilles' tendon.</B></DL>
<B>tendril, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a twisting, threadlike part of a climbing plant that attaches itself to something and helps support the plant. <DD><B> 2. </B>something similar. <BR> <I>Ex. curly tendrils of hair.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tendrillar">
<B>tendrillar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>full of tendrils. <DD><B> 2. </B>resembling a tendril. </DL>
<B>Tenebrae, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> in the Roman Catholic Church: <DD><B> 1. </B>the office of matins and lauds for the following day sung the afternoon or evening before each of the three days preceding Easter. <DD><B> 2. </B>a public service at which this office is sung. </DL>
<A NAME="tenebrific">
<B>tenebrific, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing or producing darkness; obscuring. </DL>
<A NAME="tenebrionid">
<B>tenebrionid, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a group of beetles living in arid places on decaying matter, and producing larvae that feed on grain and meal in storage. <DD><I>noun </I> a tenebrionid beetle. </DL>
<B>tenebrism</B> or <B>Tenebrism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a style of painting of the early 1600's, inspired by the works of the Italian painter Caravaggio, in which extreme contrasts of light and shade were used, as by grouping figures against a plain, dark background and spotlighting them with an intense, revealing light. </DL>
<A NAME="tenebrist">
<B>tenebrist</B> or <B>Tenebrist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> any one of the group of painters who used tenebrism. <DD><I>adj. </I> of the tenebrists or tenebrism. </DL>
<A NAME="tenebrous">
<B>tenebrous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of darkness; dark; gloomy; dim. (SYN) somber, murky, dusky. noun <B>tenebrousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="teneighty">
<B>ten-eighty</B> or <B>1080, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a poisonous compound, used as a rat poison; sodium fluoroacetate. </DL>
<A NAME="tenement">
<B>tenement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a building divided into sets of rooms occupied by separate families, especially such a building in a poor section of a city. <BR> <I>Ex. the shabby tenements along the railroad tracks.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any house or building to live in; dwelling house. <BR> <I>Ex. The little cottage was a small tenement in the valley.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the part of a house or building occupied by a tenant as a separate dwelling. <BR> <I>Ex. A two-family house has two tenements.</I> (SYN) apartment, flat. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) an abode; habitation. <BR><I>expr. <B>tenements,</B> </I>(Law.) anything permanent that one person may hold of another, such as land, buildings, franchises, or rents. <BR> <I>Ex. The Sheriffs of London [in] those days might lawfully enter into the ... tenements that the Abbot had within Middlesex (Richard Grafton).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tenemental">
<B>tenemental, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with a tenement or tenements. </DL>
<A NAME="tenementary">
<B>tenementary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can be leased. <DD><B> 2. </B>held by tenants. </DL>
<B>tenesmus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Medicine.) the continual inclination to void the contents of the bladder or bowels, with little or no discharge. </DL>
<A NAME="tenet">
<B>tenet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a doctrine, principle, belief, or opinion held as true by a school, sect, party, or person. <BR> <I>Ex. The practical consequences of any political tenet go a great way in deciding upon its value (Edmund Burke).</I> (SYN) dogma, persuasion. </DL>
<A NAME="tenfold">
<B>tenfold, </B>adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>ten times as much or as many. <DD><B> 2. </B>having ten parts. <DD><I>adv., noun </I> ten times as much or as many. </DL>
<A NAME="tengallonhat">
<B>ten-gallon hat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Western U.S.) a large, broad-brimmed hat, usually worn by cowboys. </DL>
<A NAME="tenia">
<B>tenia, </B>noun, pl. <B>-niae,</B> <B>-nias.</B> <B>=taenia.</B></DL>
<B>tennantite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gray to black mineral, a sulfide of arsenic with copper and usually iron. It is an ore of copper. </DL>
<A NAME="tenne">
<B>tenne, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry.) the tawny color in coats of arms. </DL>
<A NAME="tenner">
<B>tenner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a ten-dollar bill or a ten-pound note. <DD><B> 2. </B>anything that counts as ten. </DL>
<A NAME="tennessean">
<B>Tennessean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Tennessee. <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Tennessee. </DL>
<A NAME="tennesseevalleyauthority">
<B>Tennessee Valley Authority, =TVA.</B></DL>
<A NAME="tennesseewalkinghorse">
<B>Tennessee walking horse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an easy-gaited saddle horse originally bred from Morgan and standardbred stock by Southern plantation owners to obtain a horse with a comfortable mount. </DL>
<A NAME="tennesseewarbler">
<B>Tennessee warbler,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a warbler with an olive-green back and white breast, that nests in coniferous forests of northeastern North America. </DL>
<A NAME="tennis">
<B>tennis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a game played by two or four players on a special court, in which a ball is hit back and forth over a net with a racket; lawn tennis. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=court tennis.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tennisball">
<B>tennis ball,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a cloth covering. </DL>
<A NAME="tenniscourt">
<B>tennis court,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a level, rectangular area divided by a low net stretched across its center, prepared and marked out for playing the game of tennis. </DL>
