tent´like´

tent¹ «tehnt», noun, verb.

–n.

1. a movable shelter made of canvas or skins supported by a pole or poles. Modern tents often have fiberglass screen windows, sewed-in floors, and zippered openings.

2. a tentlike device to regulate the temperature and humidity of the air in treating certain respiratory diseases.

–v.i.

to live in or if in a tent: »

We're tenting tonight on the old campground (Walter Kittredge).

–v.t.

1. to cover with or as if with a tent.

2. to put up or lodge in a tent or tents.

╂[< Old French tente < Latin tenta, (originally) plural of tentum, variant past participle of tendere to stretch]

–tent´like´, adjective.

tent² «tehnt», noun, verb. Medicine.

–n.

1. a roll of gauze that increases in size when wet, used to dilate an opening.

2. Obsolete. a probe.

–v.t.

to keep open with a tent.

╂[< Old French tente < tenter to try, examine < Latin temptāre; see etym. under tempt (Cf. ↑tempt)]

tent³ «tehnt», noun, verb. Scottish.

–n.

heed; care.

–v.t.

1. to take or have charge and care of.

2. to heed.

3. to hinder.

4. to teach.

╂[short for Middle English attent intent]