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• TERRESTRIFY
  To convert or reduce into a condition like that of the earth; to make earthy. Sir T. Browne.
• TERRENE
  A tureen. Walpole.
• TENANT
  One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title
• TERRE-TENANT
  One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant.
• TERRE-VERTE
  An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• TENANTLESS
  Having no tenants; unoccupied; as, a tenantless mansion. Shak.
• TENANT SAW
  See TENON
• TERRESTRE
  Terrestrial; earthly. "His paradise terrestre." Chaucer.
• TERRET
  One of the rings on the top of the saddle of a harness, through which the reins pass.
• TERREL
  A spherical magnet so placed that its poles, equator, etc., correspond to those of the earth. Chambers.
• TERREITY
  Quality of being earthy; earthiness. B. Jonson.
• TENANTRY
  1. The body of tenants; as, the tenantry of a manor or a kingdom. 2. Tenancy. Ridley.
• TERRESTRIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the earth; existing on the earth; earthly; as, terrestrial animals. "Bodies terrestrial." 1 Cor. xv. 40. 2. Representing, or consisting of, the earth; as, a terrestrial globe. "The dark terrestrial ball." Addison. 3. Of or
• TENANTABLE
  Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant. -- Ten"ant*a*ble*ness, n.
• TERREOUS
  Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles.
• TERREPLEIN
  The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.
• TERRENITY
  Earthiness; worldliness. "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.
• TERREEN
  See TURREN
• TERRESTRIOUS
  Terrestrial. Sir T. Browne.
• TER-TENANT
  See TERRE-TENANT
• INTERREX
  An interregent, or a regent.
• SUBLIEUTENANT
  An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, a commissioned officer of the lowest rank.
• INTERREGENT
  A person who discharges the royal functions during an interregnum. Holland.
• INTERRENAL
  Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found in many fishes. -- n.
• COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY
  marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary.
• UNDERTENANT
  The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
• LIEUTENANT
  of tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Lieu, and Tenant, and cf. Locum 1. An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty. The lawful magistrate, who is the
• DETERRENCE
  That which deters; a deterrent; a hindrance.
• LIEUTENANT GENERAL
  . An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and
• INTERREGENCY
  An interregnum. Blount.