n. [ Formerly tedder, OE. tedir; akin to LG. tider, tier, Icel. tjōðr, Sw. tjūder, Dan. töir. √64. ] A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ See Tethys. ] (Zool.) A tunicate. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Tethys + Gr.
n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; an oyster, or &unr_; a kind of ascidian. ] (Zool.) A genus of a large naked mollusks having a very large, broad, fringed cephalic disk, and branched dorsal gills. Some of the species become a foot long and are brilliantly colored. [ 1913 Webster ]