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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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"Tent" Quotes from Famous Books

... shouted Charlie, pulling out his purse. "Here's the money, and if you come to Lieutenant Newcome's tent when you are off duty ...

— The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch • Talbot Baines Reed

... could bear no more—overwrought, and ill in mind and body, Bryda lay down in her tent-bed in the upper chamber of Bishop's Farm; and Mrs Lambert, to her intense surprise and vexation, was obliged to look for someone else to supply Bryda's place, mend and clear starch her lace, and prepare dainty dishes for Mr Lambert's ...

— Bristol Bells - A Story of the Eighteenth Century • Emma Marshall

... got the tip from Pinckney to sneak Rajah out of the stable and over into the dressin'-tent. The way that old chap's eyes glistened when he saw the banners and things was a wonder. He sure did know a heap, that Rajah. He was as excited and anxious as a new chorus girl at a fall opening; but when I gave him the word he ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... Warren at Bunker-Hill, writhing in his death-agony on one wall of the kitchen, and General Marion feasting from a potato, in his tent, on the other, did not in the least attract the attention of Mopsey. She saw nothing on the whole horizon of the glowing apartment but the pies and the turkey, and even for the moment neglected to puzzle herself, as she was accustomed to in the pauses of her daily labors, with ...

— Chanticleer - A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family • Cornelius Mathews

... Your Majesty—it was in my tenth year of government—a function was held in a tent erected for the purpose—a shamiana vastly larger than any hall. I went up to it in state, passing through lines of elephants, an hundred on either hand, covered with cloth of gold and with houdahs of yellow silk roofed with the glory of ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 1 • Lew. Wallace

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