Tedious Te"di·ous adjective [ Latin
taediosus , from
taedium . See
Tedium .]
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. --
Te"di*ous*ly ,
adverb --
Te"di*ous*ness ,
noun I see a man's life is a tedious one.
Shak. I would not be tedious to the court.
Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome; fatiguing. See
Irksome .
Tedium Te"di·um noun [ Latin
taedium , from
taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.]
Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [ Written also
tædium .]
Cowper. To relieve the tedium , he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Prof. Wilson. The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.
Dickens.
Tee Tee noun [ Confer Icelandic
tjā to show, mark.]
(a) The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth from which the ball is struck in golf.
Tee Tee noun A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape.
Tee Tee noun The letter T, t; also, something shaped like, or resembling in form, the letter T .
Tee Tee transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Teed ;
present participle & verbal noun Teeing .]
(Golf) To place (the ball) on a tee.
Tee iron Tee" i`ron See T iron , under T .
Tee-to-tum Tee-to"-tum noun [ Confer
Teetotaler .]
A workingmen's resort conducted under religious influences as a counteractant to the drinking saloon. [ Colloq. or Cant]
Teeing ground Teeing ground (Golf) The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.
Teek Teek noun (Botany) See Teak . [ Obsolete]
Teel Teel noun Sesame. [ Sometimes written
til .]
Teel oil ,
sesame oil.
Teelseed Teel"seed` noun The seed of sesame.
Teem Teem transitive verb [ Icelandic
tæma to empty, from
tōmr empty; akin to Danish
tömme to empty, Swedish
tömma . See
Toom to empty.]
1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out ; as, to teem out ale. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.]
Swift. 2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
Teem Teem transitive verb [ See
Tame ,
adjective , and confer
Beteem .]
To think fit. [ Obsolete or R.]
G. Gifford.
Teem Teem intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Teemed ;
present participle & verbal noun Teeming .] [ Middle English
temen , Anglo-Saxon
tēman ,
t...man , from
teám . See
Team .]
1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. If she must teem ,
Create her child of spleen.
Shak. 2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound. His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy.
Sir W. Scott. The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time.
F. Harrison.
Teem Teem transitive verb To produce; to bring forth. [ R.]
That [ grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
Each minute teems a new one.
Shak.
Teemer Teem"er noun One who teems, or brings forth.
Teemful Teem"ful adjective 1. Pregnant; prolific. [ Obsolete]
2. Brimful. [ Obsolete]
Ainsworth.
Teeming Teem"ing adjective Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear.
Dryden.
Teemless Teem"less adjective Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. [ Poetic]
Dryden.
Teen Teen noun [ Middle English
tene , Anglo-Saxon
teóna reproach, wrong, from
teón to accuse; akin to German
zeihen , Goth. ga
teihan to tell, announce, Latin
dicere to say. See
Token .]
Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [ Archaic]
Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen
Thou sank'st alone.
M. Arnold.
Teen Teen transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon
teónian ,
t...nan , to slander, vex. √64. See
Teen ,
noun ]
To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [ Obsolete]
Piers Plowman.
Teen Teen transitive verb [ See
Tine to shut.]
To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Teenage Teen"age noun The longer wood for making or mending fences. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Teend Teend transitive verb & i. [ See
Tinder .]
To kindle; to burn. [ Obsolete]
Herrick.
Teenful Teen"ful adjective Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [ Obsolete]
Piers Plowman.
Teens Teens noun plural [ See
Ten .]
The years of one's age having the termination -teen , beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens .
Teeny Tee"ny adjective Very small; tiny. [ Colloq.]
Teeny Teen"y adjective [ See
Teen grief.]
Fretful; peevish; pettish; cross. [ Prov. Eng.]
Teeong Tee·ong" noun (Zoology) The mino bird.
Teest Teest noun A tinsmith's stake, or small anvil.
Teeswater Tees"wa`ter noun [ From the river
Tees , northern England.]
1. A breed of cattle formerly bred in England, but supposed to have originated in Holland and to have been the principal stock from which the shorthorns were derived. 2. An old English breed of sheep allied to the Leicester.
Teetan Tee"tan noun (Zoology) A pipit. [ Prov. Eng.]
Teetee Tee"tee noun [ Spanish
tití .]
1. (Zoology) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix , Chrysothrix , and allied genera; as, the collared teetee ( Callithrix torquatus ), and the squirrel teetee ( Chrysothrix sciurea ). Called also pinche , titi , and saimiri . See Squirrel monkey , under Squirrel . 2. (Zoology) A diving petrel of Australia ( Halodroma wrinatrix ).
Teeter Tee"ter intransitive verb & t. [
imperfect & past participle Teetered ;
present participle & verbal noun Teetering .] [ Prov. English
titter to tremble, to seesaw; confer Icelandic
titra to tremble, Old High German
zittarōn , German
zittern .]
To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter. [ U. S.]
[ The bobolink] alit upon the flower, and teetered up and down.
H. W. Beecher.
Teeter-tail Tee"ter-tail` noun (Zoology) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper .
Teeth Teeth noun ,
plural of Tooth .
Teeth Teeth intransitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Teethed ;
present participle & verbal noun Teething .]
To breed, or grow, teeth.
Teething Teeth"ing noun The process of the first growth of teeth, or the phenomena attending their issue through the gums; dentition.
Teetotal Tee·to"tal adjective Entire; total. [ Colloq.]
Teetotaler Tee·to"tal·er noun One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
Teetotalism Tee·to"tal·ism noun The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
Teetotally Tee·to"tal·ly adverb Entirely; totally. [ Colloq.]
Teetotum Tee·to"tum noun [ For T-
totum . It was used for playing games of chance, and was four-sided, one side having the letter
T on it, standing for Latin
totum all, meaning, take all that is staked, whence the name. The other three sides each had a letter indicating an English or Latin word; as
P meaning put down,
N nothing or Latin
nil ,
H half. See
Total .]
A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers. The staggerings of the gentleman . . . were like those of a teetotum nearly spent.
Dickens.
Teetuck Tee"tuck noun The rock pipit. [ Prov. Eng.]
Teeuck Tee"uck noun The lapwing. [ Prov. Eng.]
Teewit Tee"wit noun (Zoology) The pewit. [ Prov. Eng.]
Teg Teg noun A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year. [ Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
Tegmen Teg"men noun ;
plural Tegmina . [ Latin , from
tegere ,
tectum , to cover.]
1. A tegument or covering. 2. (Botany) The inner layer of the coating of a seed, usually thin and delicate; the endopleura. 3. (Zoology) One of the elytra of an insect, especially of certain Orthoptera. 4. plural (Zoology) Same as Tectrices .
Tegmental Teg·men"tal adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a tegument or tegmentum; as, the tegmental layer of the epiblast; the tegmental cells of the taste buds.
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