in War, a pavilion or portable houfe. Tents are made of canvas, for officers and soldiers to lie under when in the field. The fize of the officers tents is not fixed ; fome regiments have them of one fize and fome of another ; a captain's tent and marquee is generally 10 1/2 feet broad, 14 deep, and 8 high : the fubalterns are a foot lefs ; the major's and lieutenant-colonel's a foot larger ; and the colonel's two feet larger. The fubalterns of foot lie two in a tent, and hofe of hofe but one. The tents of private men are 6 1/2 feet square, and 5 feet high, and hold five foldiers each. The tents for hofle are 7 feet broad and 9 feet deep : they hold likewife five men and their hofe accoutrements.—The word is formed from the Latin tentorium, of tendo "I stretch," becaufe tents are usually made of canvas stretched out, and fustained by poles, with cords and pegs.

Surgery, a roll of lint made into the shape of a nail with a broad flat head, chiefly ufed in deep wounds and ulcers. They are of fervice, not only in conveying medicines to the moft intimate receiles and finules of the wound, but to prevent the lips of the wound from uniting before it is healed from the bottom ; and by their affistance grumous blood, fordes, &c. are readily evacuated.