tensure

English

Etymology

Latin tensura. See tension.

Noun

tensure

1. (obsolete) tension
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, translation of Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered

     "Thus death her life became, loss proved her tensure".

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tensure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• neuters, retunes, run tees, senteur, tenures, tureens, unreset