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Word Meanings - ANTIFRICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

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  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • TENDANCE
    1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • LESSENER
    One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • TENDON
    A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
  • TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
    Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
  • TENDRIL
    A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
  • TENDER-HEARTED
    Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
  • TENDRON
    A tendril. Holland.
  • TEND
    To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • TENDRE
    Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray.
  • TENDERLOIN
    A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
  • TENDERFOOT
    A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.
  • TENDENCY
    Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country.
  • TENDMENT
    Attendance; care.
  • FRICTIONAL
    Relating to friction; moved by friction; produced by friction; as, frictional electricity. Frictional gearing, wheels which transmit motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase
  • TENDINOUS
    1. Pertaining to a tendon; of the nature of tendon. 2. Full of tendons; sinewy; as, nervous and tendinous parts of the body.
  • TENDER-HEFTED
    Having great tenderness; easily moved. Shak.
  • INTENDENT
    See N
  • INTENDIMENT
    Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
  • OBTEND
    1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • ENTEND
    To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
  • PRETENDER
    The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
  • PRETENDANT
    A pretender; a claimant.
  • PORTEND
    to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
  • ATTENDMENT
    An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
  • UPPERTENDOM
    The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • AFFRICTION
    The act of rubbing against.
  • INTENDANT
    One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
  • CHRISTENDOM
    1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. Shak. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. Shak. 3. That portion

 

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