Definitions
1.nounThe person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
2.nounOne of ten equal parts of a whole.
3.nounThe interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
4.noun(in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.