Tennant
WILLIAM, a Scotch poet; born in Anstruther, Fifeshire, May 15, 1784, studied for some time at the University of St. Andrews, was for several years a clerk, devoted himself then to teaching, and, being a good Oriental linguist, was in 1835 appointed to the chair of Oriental languages in St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. His chief production is "Anster Fair," a humorous poem of Scottish life in the same stanza as Byron's "Don Juan," which it preceded, being published in 1812. Besides "Anster Fair," Tennant was the author of several other poems and some dramas. None of them, however, attained any success. Grammars of the Syriac and Chaldes tongues were also published by him. He died near Dollar, Scotland, Feb. 15, 1848.
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Tenniel
JOHN, an English artist; born in London in 1820. He was almost entirely self-taught, and his first picture was exhibited while he was little more than a boy. He painted one of the frescoes in the Houses of Parliament in 1845, and produced but few pictures afterward. In 1851 he became connected as an illustrator with "Punch," and contributed illustrations to that paper, in particular the weekly political cartoon. He also illustrated many Christmas and other books, including "Esop's Fables," "Ingoldsby goldsby Legends," "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," etc. He was knighted in 1893. He died in 1914.
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Tenpins
a parlor game. Ten wooden pins are set up in the form of a triangle in ranks of four, three, two, and one, with the apex toward the player who rolls a ball across the floor with the object of knocking down as many of the pins as possible. To knock down all the pins is "to make a strike." When played in a regularly constructed alley, the game is usually called bowls. See Skittles ; Bowling
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Tensile Strength
See STRENGTH OF MATERIALS. Terne Plate are thin iron plates cleaned, and coated with tin by dipping into a molten bath of the latter metal. See TINNING.
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Tenterden
CHARLES ABBOT, BARON, an English jurist; born a barber's son in Canterbury, Oct. 7, 1762. A foundationer at King's School, Canterbury, of which he was captain at 17, he gained an exhibition which enabled him to proceed to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Here he obtained a scholarship; in 1784 the chancellor's medal for Latin verse, in 1786 for an English essay; graduated in 1785, and soon after became fellow and tutor of his college. Entered at the Middle Temple, he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1796. He joined the Oxford circuit and obtained a large practice. In 1801 he became recorder of Oxford, and next year published his clear and learned treatise on the "Law Relative to Merchant Ships and Seamen." In 1816 he accepted a puisne judgeship in the Court of Common Pleas; and in 1818 he was knighted, and chosen to succeed Lord Ellenborough as Chief- Justice of the King's Bench. He was raised to the peerage in 1827. In the House of Lords he strongly opposed the
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Tentering
in the manufacture of textiles, the process of stretching cloth so that it may dry evenly and be of a uniform and specified width. Tentering is employed in the finishing of a large number of fabrics.
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Tenure
the act, manner, or right of holding property, especially real esthe field, for travelers on an expedition, tate. Land may be held according to two main principles, feudal or allodial (see these words). The former is the principle universal in England. In the United States the title to land is essentially allodial, and every tenant in fee-simple has an absolute and perfect title. Yet in technical language his estate is called an estate in fee-simple, and the tenure free and common socage. Also the consideration, condition, or service, which the occupier of land gives to his landlord for the use of his land; and the manner of holding in general; the terms or conditions on which anything is held or retained.
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Tenure-Of-Office Act
in the United States, a bill passed by Congress in February, 1867, limiting the powers of the President in removals from office. Among other things it took from the President the power to remove members of his cabinet excepting by permission of the Senate, declaring that they should hold office "for and during the term of the President by whom the they may have been appointed, and for one month thereafter, subject to removal by and with the consent of the Senate." President Johnson vetoed this bill (March 2) when it was passed over his veto and became a law. TENURES OF LAND. Nearly all the real property of England is supposed to have been granted by a superior lord, and to be held from him in consideration of certain services to be rendered to him by the tenant. By an act of Parliament, were changed into military tenures socage.
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Tephillin
In the Hebrew tongue means "attachments." They were originally prayer thongs worn by the Jews at morning prayer-one on the left arm and another on the head. They came to be regarded as talismans and were used in many traditional ceremonies. The Talmud says: Whoever has the tephillin bound to his head and arm 66 is protected from sin."
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Tephramancy
A mode of divination in which use is made of the ashes of the fire which had consumed the victims of a sacrifice.
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Teplitz
a watering place in Bohemia; situated in a beautiful valley near the Erzgebirge; 20 miles N. W. of Leitmeritz. The baths are supplied from about a dozen hot alkalo-saline springs, are taken exceedingly hot, and have great virtue in restoring persons afflicted with gout, rheumatism, etc. One of the springs is used also for drinking. Pop. about 27,000.
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Terai
or TURRYE the Himalaya mountains in the N. of India, continuously from Kumaon to Assam. This is about 15 miles wide, and is kept perpetually moist by rivulets. It is overgrown with jungle and enormous grasses, the home of tigers and other wild beasts. Proceeding from the W., the first portion lies in the Rohilcund division of the northwest provinces, forming the district of Terai, with an area of 920 square miles; the chief town Kashipur. The next portion, bordering Oudh and Behar, lies chiefly within Nepal territory. The third piece was annexed from Bhutan after the War of 1864, and is known as the East and West Duars.
or TURRYE Catholic Relief Bill, and in his last speech he made a vow that if the Reform Bill, that "appalling bill," passed, he would never again take his seat as a peer. He fell ill at Bristol, while presiding at the trial of the mayor for misconduct during the Reform riots, and died suddenly, Nov. 4, 1832.
or TURRYE, the name of the narrow strip of swampy jungle which uniformly underlies the lowest ridge of
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