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
A tenth is one of ten equal parts of something. We received only two tenths of an inch of rain during the entire month of June. coming after nine other things in a series. one of ten equal parts of something
The 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