Tenacité: f. Tenacitie; fast keeping, sure holding, strait retaining; hardnesse, niggardlinesse, miserie, sparing; also, constancie, steadfastnesse; also, clamminesse.
Tenaillade: f. A plucke, twitch, or stroake with a paire of pinsers.
Tenaille: f. A paire of pinsers.
Tenaillé: m. ée: f. Plucked out, or taken hold of, with pinsers; also, whose flesh is pinched, or torne off with hot pinsers.
Tenaillement: m. A plucking out, or taking hold of with pinsers; also, a pinching, or tearing off, of the flesh with hot pinsers.
Tenailler. To pull out, plucke off, take hold of, with pinsers; also, to pinch, or teare the flesh off with hot pinsers.
Tenais: m. The slip of a plant.
Tenaisie: f. The hearbe Tansie.
Tenamment. Fastly, cleauingly, holdingly, close together.
Tenant: m. A miser, snudge, niggard, pinchpenie, peni-*father; a sparing, hard, or neere snudge; a close-handed, or couetous hold-fast; also, the side, or limit on the side, of a house, or peece of ground; also, a defendant in a Just, or Turnament; any one that withstands another, or holds, & makes good a place against him; also, a cōtinuall course, or vnintermitted continuance, of things; whence; Tout d'un tenant. All together; &; Tout en vn tenant; Together, in one, all as one.
Tenant: m. ante: f. Holding, keeping, detaining; also, bounding or abutting on, next or neere adioyning vnto. Le Roy tenant son lict de Iustice. Sitting in the throne of Justice.
Tenar de la main. A certaine muskle whereof the greatest part of the palme of the hand consisteth.
Tencer. Looke Tanser. Tenche: f. A Tench. Tenche de mer. The sea Tench, a rock-fish made like the riuer Tench, but of sundrie colours, and verie tender when she is dressed.
Tendant. Bending, stretching, reaching, giuing forward, making towards; tending, inclining, drawing neere vnto.
Tendelet: m. The tilt, or couer, of the poope of a galley; the cloth wherewith it is couered.
Tendineux: m. euse: f. Of, or full of, a Tendon.
Tendon: m. A Tendon, or taile of a muskle; a bloudleße instrument of motiō, consisting partly of the sinew, and partly of the ligament, and fibers, which issue confusedly from the bellie of a muskle.
Tendre. To tend; bend; reach, extend, stretch out, spread or display; to pitch; incline, or giue forwards; approach, or make towards; goe on, or draw neere vnto; also, to indeuor, goe about, labour to get or come by; also, to tender, or offer vnto.
Tendre à fin de non recevoir. To oppose th' entrie, or admittance of his aduersaries plea, or processe.
Tendre le giron en la Iustice. (A defendant) comparoir à l'assignation qui luy a esté baillée, & accorder au demandeur ses fins, & conclusions.
Tendre les mains. To beg, or aske for mercie.
Tendre aux oiseaux. To lay, or set nets, &c, for birds.
Il n'a veine qu'y tend. He hath no fancie nor humor vnto it, he minds or meanes nothing lesse.
Qui à aise tend aise luy faut: Pro. He that prouides for his ease doth often loose it; or, he that cares for his ease is often crost in't.
Qui à asne tend à asne vient: Pro. He quickly may, that needs will, be an aße; or, at any time hee speedes
that would be an asse.
Tendre: com. Tender; young; soft, supple, gentle, plyant; mercifull, tractable, soone induced, easily drawne vnto; also, nice, nesh, puling, delicate, effeminate.
Tendrelet: m. ette: f. Somewhat tender, &c.
Tendrement. Tenderly; softly, supplely, pliantly; gentlely, tractably; neshly, delicately; gingerly.
Tendret: m. ette: f. A little tender, soft, supple; gentle, tractable; nesh, delicate.
Tendreté: f. Tendernesse, softnesse, supplenesse; gentleneße, tractablenesse; neshnesse, effeminacie, delicatenesse.
Tendreur: f. as Tendreté. Tendrieres: f. Chaps, rifts, or chawnes on the nipple of a womans breast.
Tendrillons: m. Tendrells, little gristles.
Tendrineux: m. euse: f. Full of tendrells, or of slender gristles.
Tendron: m. A tender, nesh, delicate, or effeminate fellow; also, a cartilage, or gristle; also, a tendrell, or the tender branch, or sprig of a plant.
Tendronneux: m. euse: f. Gristlie, full of gristles, or of tendrells.
Tendu: m. uë: f. Tended; bent; raught, extended, stretched out; spred, or displayed; pitched; inclined, or made towards; tendered, or offered vnto; layed, or set for.
Tenebres: f. Darknesse, obscuritie, dimneße; also, the seruice vsed in Popish Churches the three dayes next before Easter; whence; Les trois jours de tenebres; be those three dayes.
Tenebreux: m. euse: f. Tenebrous, darkesome, obscure, full of darkneße, or of obscuritie.
Tenebrions: m. Night-spirits, Hobgoblins, such as loue, and liue in, continuall darkneße: ¶Rab. Tenement: m. A countrey, territorie, or lands possessed, or held absolutely; also, a tenemēt, inheritance, or lands held in fief, by Cens, or a chiefe rent.
Tenementier: m. A tenant, or farmer.
Tenesme: m. A great desire, deuoid of power, to purge.
Teneur: m. The Tenor part in Musicke.
Teneur: f. The tenor, content, stuffe, or substance of a matter; also, a continuall order, state, fashion, race, course; an vnstopping, or vnintermitted continuance of things without any change in the manner thereof.
Tenie: f. A fillet, head-band, or haire-lace; also, a kind of brow, or iuttying in a piller.
Tenir. To hold, haue, keepe, enioy, possesse; take; detaine, withhold; reserue, retaine; also, to beare, vphold, support, sustaine, maintaine; also, to performe, effect, obserue, make good; also, to let, stop, hinder, impeach; gouerne, keepe in order, bridle, restraine; also, to iudge, deeme, account, repute, esteeme; also, to cleaue, cling, adhere, sticke fast, lye close, or sit sure, vnto.
Tenir adverti de. To giue notice or intelligence of.
Tenir des basses marches. To hold of the smocke, his wife to be his maister.
Tenir le bec en l'eau. To delay, or dallie with; Looke vnder Bec.
Tenir la bride haute à. To awe, restraine, keep short, hold in.
Tenir bon. To be firme, or constant in a matter; to continue or persist in it, to hold or stand to it, without any flinching or shrinking.
Tenir bon à quelqu'un. To hold him play.
Tenir son coeur. To malice inwardly, to beare a grudge vnto.
Tenir coup à la besongne. Seeke vnder Coup.
