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Tendent, Tendon, Tennon, n. [e.m.E. tenaunt(e (1541), tendon(e (1543).] A tendon. b. transf. Something resembling a tendon, a root. — 1562 Digest Justiciary Proc. D 47.
He [being] impotent be … the cutting of the musculis tendentis and legamentis of his solle of his said left fut —b. 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 372.
A plant … groweth by attracting a lively juice from the earth therow manie small roots and tendons 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 450.
Tendons. Smal things, lik hair hinging at the roots of trees, or a litl vein 16.. Maidment Balfour Ballads 22.
To sned the branches, and forbear the root, Is for to cherish that unhappy fruit, Whose tennons small, if they be left in ground, Like ill weeds soon will waxe, and all confound