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m, _to stretch_. TEND: tend, _to aim at, take care of_; tend'ency; attend' (-ance, -ant); contend'; distend'; extend'; intend' (literally, to stretch to), _to purpose, to design_; portend' (literally, to stretch forward), _to presage, to betoken_; pretend' (literally, to stretch forth), _to affect, feel_; subtend', _to extend under_; superintend' (-ence, -ent). TENS: tense (adj.), _stretched_; ten'sion; intense' (-ify); osten'sible (Lat. v. _osten'dere_, to stretch out or spread before one), _apparent_; pretense'. TENT: tent, literally, _a shelter of stretched canvas_; tentac'ula, _the feelers of certain animals_; atten'tion; atten'tive; conten'tion; conten'tious; extent'; intent' (-ion); ostenta'tion; ostenta'tious; por'tent, _an ill omen_. 199. TENE'RE: ten'eo, ten'tum, _to hold_; _French_ Tenir (_radical_ tain), _to hold_. TEN: ten'able; ten'ant, _one who holds property under another_; ten'antry; ten'ement; ten'et (Lat. _tenet_, literally, "he holds"), _a doctrine held as true_; ten'ure. TIN (in compos.): ab'stinent; ab'stinence; continent; incon'tinent; per'tinent; imper'tinent. TENT: content' (-ment); contents'; discontent'; deten'tion; reten'tion; reten'tive; sus'tenance. TAIN: abstain'; appertain'; contain'; detain'; entertain' (-ment); pertain'; retain' (-er); sustain'. Tena'cious (Lat. adj. _te'nax, tena'cis_, holding firmly); tenac'ity; appur'tenance, _that which belongs to something else_; contin'ue (Fr. v. _continuer_ = Lat. _contine're_); contin'ual; contin'uance; continua'tion; continu'ity; discontin'ue; coun'tenance (literally, the contents of a body: hence, of a face); lieuten'ant (Fr. n. _lieu_, a place); maintain' (Fr. n. _main_, the hand), literally, _to hold by the hand_: hence, _to support, to uphold_; main'tenance; pertina'cious; pertinac'ity; ret'inue, _a train of attendants_. 200. TER'RA, _the earth_. TERR: ter'race (Fr. n. _terrasse_); terra'queous (Lat. n. _a'qua_, water); terres'trial; ter'ritory (-al); ter'rier, _a small dog that goes into the ground after burrowing animals_; Mediterra'nean (Lat. n. _me'dius_, middle); subterra'nean. Inter, _to put in the earth, to bury_; inter'ment; disinter'. 201. TES'TIS, _a witness_. TEST: tes'tify; attest' (-ation); contest'; detest' (-able); protest' (-ation, -ant); prot'estantism. Tes'tament (Lat. n. _testamen'tum_, a will); testamen'tary; testa'tor; tes'timony (-al); intes'tate, _not having left a will_. 2
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