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noun

Tent n. A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

Tent n.

Attention; regard, care. (Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

Intention; design. (Prov. Eng.)

Tent n. (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 tent that searches To the bottom of the worst."

Tent n.

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."

(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.

verb

Tent v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

Tent v. t. To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. "I'll tent him to the quick."

Tent v. i. (past & past part. tented; pres. part. tenting) To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. "We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... danger, or to shun it himself. Every one considers that shameful and brutal which Schuyler relates of the Kirghiz in times of tempest,—to send out the women and the aged females to hold fast the corners of the kibitka [tent] during the storm, while they themselves continue to sit within the tent, over their kumis [fermented mare's-milk]. Every one thinks it shameful to make a week man work for one; that it is still more disgraceful in time of danger—on a ...

— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi

... himself; being now too aged and infirm to bear the fatigues of Indian life, he had become fond of retirement and reading. As to Gabriel and Roche, we became inseparable, and though in some points we were not on an equality, yet the habit of being constantly together and sharing the same tent united us like brothers. ...

— Monsieur Violet • Frederick Marryat

... them, as the settlers considered them a part of their dress. Then Powhatan planned to surprise them by night. But, just as his trap was well laid, Pocahontas, risking her own life, stole silently through the deep woods in the dark, cold night, to the Captain's tent, and, with tears in her eyes, warned him of his danger, urging him ...

— The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith • E. Boyd Smith

... custom-house I paid duty on articles I could not possibly have bought anywhere in the Congo, as, for instance, a tent and a folding-bed, and for a license to carry arms. A young man with a hammer and tiny branding irons beat little stars and the number of my license to porter d'armes on the stock of each weapon. Without permission of Bula Matadi on leaving the Congo, one can ...

— The Congo and Coasts of Africa • Richard Harding Davis

... O, blind to proffer'd bliss!—What! fondly quit This pomp Of empire for an Arab's wand'ring tent, Where the mock chieftain leads his vagrant tribes From plain to plain, and faintly shadows out The majesty of kings!—Far other joys Here shall attend thy call: Submissive realms Shall bow the neck; and swarthy kings and Queens, From the far-distant Niger ...

— The Universal Reciter - 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems • Various

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