War, a pavilion or portable house. Tents are made of canvas, for officers and soldiers to lie under when in the field. The size of the officers' tents is not fixed; some regiments have them of one size and some of another; a captain's tent and marquee is generally 10 feet broad, 14 deep, and 8 high: the subalterns are a foot less; the major's and lieutenant-colonel's a foot larger; and the colonel's two feet larger. The subalterns of foot lie two in a tent, and those of hussars but one. The tents of private men are 6½ feet square, and 5 feet high, and hold five soldiers each. The tents for horse are 7 feet broad and 9 feet deep: they hold likewise five men and their horse accoutrements.—The word is formed from the Latin tentorium, of tendo "I stretch," because tents are usually made of canvas stretched out, and sustained by poles, with cords and pegs.

Surgery, a roll of lint made into the shape of a nail with a broad flat head, chiefly used in deep wounds and ulcers. They are of service, not only in conveying medicines to the most intimate recesses and sinuses of the wound, but to prevent the lips of the wound from uniting before it is healed from the bottom; and by their assistance grumous blood, sores, &c., are readily evacuated.

Tenter, Trier, or Prover, a machine used in the cloth manufacture, to stretch out the pieces of cloth, stuff, &c., or only to make them even and set them square.

It is usually about 4½ feet high, and for length exceeds that of the longest piece of cloth. It consists of several long square pieces of wood, placed like those which form the barriers of a manege; so, however, as that the lower cross pieces of wood may be raised or lowered as is found requisite, to be fixed at any height by means of pins. Along the cross pieces, both the upper and the under one, are hooked nails, called tenter-hooks, driven in from space to space.

To put a piece of Cloth on the Tenter. While the piece is yet quite wet, one end is fastened to one of the ends ends of the tenter; then it is pulled by force of arms towards the other end, to bring it to the length required: that other end being fastened, the upper lift is hooked on to the upper cross-piece, and the lower lift to the lower cross-piece, which is afterwards lowered by force, till the piece have its desired breadth. Being thus well stretched, both as to length and breadth, they brush it with a stiff hair brush, and thus let it dry. Then they take it off; and, till they wet it again, it will retain the length and breadth the tenter gave it.