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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, v. t. To attend to; to heed; hence, to guard; to hinder. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, v. t. [OF. tenter. See {Tempt}.] To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent; as, to tent a wound. Used also figuratively. [1913 Webster] I'll tent him to the quick. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, n. [F. tente. See {Tent} to probe.] (Surg.) (a) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges. (b) A probe for searching a wound. [1913 Webster] The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. --Shak. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, n. [Sp. tinto, properly, deep-colored, fr. L. tinctus, p. p. of tingere to dye. See {Tinge}, and cf. {Tint}, {Tinto}.] A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; -- called also {tent wine}, and {tinta}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, n. [Cf. {Attent}, n.] 1. Attention; regard, care. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] --Lydgate. [1913 Webster] 2. Intention; design. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, n. [OE. tente, F. tente, LL. tenta, fr. L. tendere, tentum, to stretch. See {Tend} to move, and cf. {Tent} a roll of lint.] 1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. [1913 Webster] Within his tent, large as is a barn. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. (Her.) The representation of a tent used as a bearing. [1913 Webster] {Tent bed}, a high-post bedstead curtained with a tentlike canopy. {Tent caterpillar} (Zool.), any one of several species of gregarious caterpillars which construct on trees large silken webs into which they retreat when at rest. Some of the species are very destructive to fruit trees. The most common American species is the larva of a bombycid moth ({Clisiocampa Americana}). Called also {lackery caterpillar}, and {webworm}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tent \Tent\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tented}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tenting}.] To lodge as a tent; to tabernacle. --Shak. [1913 Webster] We 're tenting to-night on the old camp ground. --W. Kittredge. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: tent n 1: a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek" [syn: {tent}, {collapsible shelter}] 2: a web that resembles a tent or carpet v 1: live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: {camp}, {encamp}, {camp out}, {bivouac}, {tent}] From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: tent /tɛnt/ 1. barn; shed; stand 2. tent