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Tenability
n.
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The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.
Tenable
a.
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Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Tenableness
n.
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Same as Tenability.
Tenace
n.
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The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.
Tenacious
a.
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Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
Tenacious
a.
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Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory.
Tenacious
a.
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Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as, steel is a tenacious metal; tar is more tenacious than oil.
Tenacious
a.
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Apt to adhere to another substance; glutinous; viscous; sticking; adhesive.
Tenacious
a.
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Niggardly; closefisted; miserly.
Tenacious
a.
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Holding stoutly to one's opinion or purpose; obstinate; stubborn.
Tenacity
n.
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The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.
Tenacity
n.
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That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
Tenacity
n.
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That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.
Tenacity
n.
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The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
Tenacula
pl.
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of Tenaculum
Tenaculums
pl.
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of Tenaculum
Tenaculum
n.
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An instrument consisting of a fine, sharp hook attached to a handle, and used mainly for taking up arteries, and the like.
Tenacy
n.
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Tenaciousness; obstinacy.
Tenaille
n.
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An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of Ravelin.
Tenaillon
n.
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A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.
Tenacies
pl.
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of Tenancy
Tenancy
n.
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A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.
Tenancy
n.
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A house for habitation, or place to live in, held of another.
Tenant
n.
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One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2.
Tenant
n.
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One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.
Tenanted
imp. & p. p.
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of Tenant
Tenanting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Tenant
Tenant
v. t.
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To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Tenantable
a.
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Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
Tenantless
a.
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Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion.