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 Tenu: m. uë: f. Held, kept, had, enioyed, posseßed, retained, reserued, detained, withheld; borne, supported, vpheld; performed, effected, obserued; stopped, hindered; bridled, restrained; iudged, reputed, esteemed; bound, or beholden vnto.  À toy n'a pas tenu. ''Thou wert no hinderance, thou gauest no impediment, broughtest no impeachment; it was not long of thee. And, S'il n'eust tenu à toy. Without thee, had it not beene for thee.''  On luy avoit tenu si avant la liberté, de. He had so much libertie giuen him, or men had so long suffered him, to.

Tenuë: f. Hold; apprehension; performance; also, a Tenure in Law.  Femme de proüesse, & de tenuë. That will say and hold, that is as good as her word.  Homme qui n'a point de tenuë. Cet homme n'a point, &c. There is no certainetie in his speeches, no constancie in his actions; we cannot build any way vpon him.

Tenuë: com. Thin, slender, sleight, fine; weake; leane, gaunt; little, spare, small.

Tenuëment. Thinly, slenderly, sleightly; weakely; leanely, gauntly; smally, poorely.

Tenuité: f. Tenuitie, thinnesse, exilitie, sleightnesse, finenesse; leannesse, gauntnesse, slendernesse, scantnesse.

Tenure: f. A tenure; a hold, or estate in land.  Tenure brisée. A disseisin.

Tenure: com. as Tenuë. Tenurement. as Tenuëment. Tenuret: m. ette: f. Somewhat slender, thin, sleight; verie little, scant, small.

Tenureté: f. Looke Tenuité. Tephramantie: f. Diuination by ashes blowne, or cast, vp into the aire. ¶Rab. Tepidité: f. Luke-warmeneße.

Terapeutique. as Therapeutique. Terbenthin: m. The Turpentine tree.

Terbenthine: f. Turpentine; Looke Terebinthine. Terçage: m. A third breaking, or digging vp of the ground.

Terceau: m. A quantitie of wine taken by some Lords vpon euerie vessell belonging to their vassalls; who if they broach any before, or before notice thereof giuen to the Lord, or his officers, loose 60 s Tourn. Tercéer. To till, breake, or dig vp the ground a third time.

Tercer. as Tercéer. Tercot: m. A little ash-coloured, and long-tongued bird, called a Wry-necke.

Terebentine. as Terebinthine. Terebinthe: f. The Turpentine tree.

Terebinthine: f. Turpentine; the Rosin, or Gumme of the Turpentine tree: (This is the right Turpentine, whereas that which is commonly sold for such, is the liquide Rosin of the Larch tree.)  Terebinthine de Venise. Turpentine of Venice, right Turpentine; (Jn the shops of England, and Germanie, the liquid Rosin taken from the barke of young Firre-trees is falsely called, Terebinthina Veneta.)

Terelle. as Tarelle. Tereniaban. Liquid Manna; of the colour, and consistence of honey.

Terges: f. Little Jmages of Saints made on peeces of painted paper, or leather, and worne, like brooches, in the hats of the youths of the parish, at publick meetings, or on solemne dayes.

Tergiversation: f. Tergiuersation; a flinching, with-* *drawing, shifting, slinking, or shrinking backe; a hafting, dodging, paultering, or paultrie excusing; a Nonsuit in Law.

Tergiversateur: m. A flincher, shrinker, starter, hafter, dodger, paulterer; one that is nonsuited, or withdrawes a suit, but with a purpose to begin anew.

Tergiverser. To flinch; to shift, slinke, or shrinke backe from; to dodge, paulter, hagle, or haft; to wrangle; excuse, deny; withdraw a suit, fall to a Nonsuit; run back, but not giue ouer.

Teriere: f. An Augur.

Teriz: m. A kind of long-heeled Linnet.

Terme: m. A terme, time, or day; also, a tearme, word, speech; also, a Pillar fashioned, at the vpper end, like an arme-lesse man or woman; and (more generally) any arme-lesse Jmage; also, a crosse way; also, a great high way; also, a stone, bound, limit, mere, diuiding land from land.  Estre en termes. Et sommes nous en ces termes? ''What? are we at this point, are we come to this passe?''  Mis en termes. Discußed, examined, deliberated of, or fallen into deliberation.  Tenir terme. Quel terme il tient. What face he sets on it, what countenance he shewes in it.  Le terme vaut l'argent. The terme is worth my money; a Prouerbe wherewith diuers, that haue borrowed much vpon long dayes, are apt to flatter themselues, hoping that somewhat may, in the meane while, occurre to their further benefit, or full discharge.  Il n'y a terme qui passe par delà celuy de frere: Pro. No title goes beyond the deere name of a brother.

Termement: m. The appointing, or setting downe of a certaine terme, or time.

Terminaison: f. A termination.

Termination: f. A determining, finishing, ending; also, a limitting, or bounding.

Terminé: m. ée: f. Determined, ended, finished; bounded, limitted; also, ending, finishing; limitting, bounding.

Terminer. To determine, finish, end; limit, bound.

Termoyer. To appoint a terme, assigne a time, limit of set a day.

Ternaire: com. Of three, or of a third.

Ternenaire. A number containing many threes.

Terner. To throw a tre, or three.

Terni: m. ie: f. Wan, lew, pale, bleake, sallow, discoloured, of a duskish or deadlie hue; whose luster is lost, or verie much decayed.  Yeux ternis. Dull or dead eyes; eyes that are growne heauie, or be nothing so quick, liuelie, or piercing, as they haue beene.

Ternier: m. The small Hickway, tearmed a Wall-pecker.

se Ternir. To wax pale, wan, lew, bleake, discoloured, or sallow of colour; to loose, or decay much in, it former luster.

Ternisseur: m. A bleaker, blemisher, discolourer.

Ternissure: f. Paleneße, bleakenesse, wanneße, leadenneße of colour; a sallow, duskish, or deadlie hue.

Terrace. as Terrasse; also, a Terrace, or high, and open Gallerie.

Terrage: m. Field-rent, countrey toll; which is (if in the tenants Graunt, or Lease, there be no certaine rate set downe) the twelfth sheafe, or bundle of all sorts of Corne, Flax, Hempe, and Fruit gotten on a tenement; onely the profits and increase of Meddowes, Woods, and Vineyards are exempted, vnleße there be a speciall