10 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tenting}.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. --Shak.
We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. --W. Kittredge.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, noun [Cf. {Attent}, noun]
1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Lydgate.
2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, verb (used with an object) To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, verb (used with an object) [OF. 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. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, noun [F. tente. See {Tent} to probe.] (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. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, noun [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See {Tend} to move, and cf. {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. --Chaucer.
2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
{Tent bed}, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy.
{Tent caterpillar} (Zo["o]l.), 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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tent \Tent\, noun [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See {Tinge}, and cf. {Tint}, {Tinto}.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also {tent wine}, and {tinta}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek" [syn: {collapsible shelter}]
verb
1: live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {camp}, {encamp}, {camp out}, {bivouac}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "tent": A-tent, Ace bandage, Band-Aid, adhesive tape, application, band, bandage, bandaging, big top, binder, bivouac, brace, bungalow tent, cabin tent, camp, camp out, canvas, cast, cataplasm, compress, cotton, court plaster, cravat, dressing, drive stakes, elastic bandage, encamp, epithem, four-tailed bandage, gauze, go camping, highwall tent, lint, maroon, marquee, marquise, pavilion, pitch, pitch camp, plaster, plaster cast, pledget, poultice, pyramidal tent, roller, roller bandage, rough it, round top, rubber bandage, shelter tent, sleep out, sling, splint, sponge, stupe, tampon, tape, tentage, tepee, top, tourniquet, triangular bandage, tupik, umbrella tent, wall tent, whitetop, wigwam
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tent (1.) Heb. 'ohel (Gen. 9:21, 27). This word is used also of a dwelling or habitation (1 Kings 8:66; Isa. 16:5; Jer. 4:20), and of the temple (Ezek. 41:1). When used of the tabernacle, as in 1 Kings 1:39, it denotes the covering of goat's hair which was placed over the mishcan. (2.) Heb. mishcan (Cant. 1:8), used also of a dwelling (Job 18:21; Ps. 87:2), the grave (Isa. 22:16; comp. 14:18), the temple (Ps. 46:4; 84:2; 132:5), and of the tabernacle (Ex. 25:9; 26:1; 40:9; Num. 1:50, 53; 10:11). When distinguished from 'ohel, it denotes the twelve interior curtains which lay upon the framework of the tabernacle (q.v.). (3.) Heb. kubbah (Num. 25:8), a dome-like tent devoted to the impure worship of Baal-peor. (4.) Heb. succah (2 Sam. 11:11), a tent or booth made of green boughs or branches (see Gen. 33:17; Lev. 23:34, 42; Ps. 18:11; Jonah 4:5; Isa. 4:6; Neh. 8:15-17, where the word is variously rendered). Jubal was "the father of such as dwell in tents" (Gen. 4:20). The patriarchs were "dwellers in tents" (Gen. 9:21, 27; 12:8; 13:12; 26:17); and during their wilderness wanderings all Israel dwelt in tents (Ex. 16:16; Deut. 33:18; Josh. 7:24). Tents have always occupied a prominent place in Eastern life (1 Sam. 17:54; 2 Kings 7:7; Ps. 120:5; Cant. 1:5). Paul the apostle's occupation was that of a tent-maker (Acts 18:3); i.e., perhaps a maker of tent cloth.
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