tenn

n. [ Named after Smithson Tennant, an English chemist. ] (Min.) A blackish lead-gray mineral, closely related to tetrahedrite. It is essentially a sulphide of arsenic and copper. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Cf. Tawny. ] (Her.) A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. tennes, tenies, tenyse; of uncertain origin, perhaps fr. F. tenez hold or take it, fr. tenir to hold (see Tenable). ] A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, . . . were familiar to all London. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Court tennis, the old game of tennis as played within walled courts of peculiar construction; -- distinguished from lawn tennis. --
Lawn tennis. See under Lawn, n. --
Tennis court, a place or court for playing the game of tennis. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis. [ R. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Jap. tennō, fr. Chin. t'ien heaven + wang king. ] Lit., King of Heaven; -- a title of the emperor of Japan as the head of the Shinto religion. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]