Tent
Tent , noun
[Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingere to dye. See Tinge, and compare Tint, Tinto.]
A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also tent wine, and tinta.
Tent , noun
[Compare Attent, n.]
1.
Attention; regard, care. [Obsolete or Provincial English & Scottish] — Lydgate
2.
Intention; design. [Provincial English] — Halliwell
Tent , transitive verb
To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Provincial English & Scottish] — Halliwell
Tent , transitive verb
[Old French tenter. See Tempt.]
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 , noun
[French tente. See Tent to probe.]
(a)
(Surgery) 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)
(Surgery) A probe for searching a wound.
The tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
Tent , noun
[Old English tente, French tente, Late Latin tenta, from Latin tendere, tentum, to stretch. See Tend to move, and compare Tent a roll of lint.]
1.
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.
2.
(Heraldry) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
Collocations (2)
Tent bed , a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
Tent caterpillar (Zoology) , 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.
Tent , intransitive verb
To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. — Shakespeare
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground.