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TEA 



he had for izJ., fliall forfeit 5/. a month. ( 1 1 Geo. c. 30.) 

 If any perfon offer any tea to falc without a permit, or a 

 pedlar with one, the perfon to whom it is offered may feizc 

 the fame, &c. 9 Geo. II. c. 35. See Coffee. 



Every perfon deahng in tea, &c. fiiall caufe to be painted 

 or written over the door of his (hop, tlie words dealer in coffee, 

 tea, cocoa-nuts, or chocclate, on pain of 200/. (19 Geo. III. 

 c. 69.) And any dealer buying of any perfon who has not 

 this infcription, incurs forfeiture of 1 00/., and any other per- 

 fon 10/. By 20 Geo. III., c. 35. no perfon (liall trade in 

 coffee, tea, or chocolate, without a licence, at the price (by 

 43 Geo. III. c. 69.) of 5J. Gd., under penalty of 20/. 

 The adulteration of tea is fubjeft to a penalty of 100/. be- 

 fides the forfeiture of the fame, and for every pound of 

 dyed leaves of tea, 5/. 1 1 Geo. c. 30. 17 Geo. III. c. 29. 



At the Eaft India Company's fale of teas, an account 

 (hall be taken of the buyers and prices, and the bed bidder 

 ftall witliin three days depofit with the Company, or their 

 clerks, 40/. for every tub or cheft of tea, on pain of fix 

 times the value, and fuch fale /hall be void, and the fame 

 (hall in 14 days after be put up again. ( 18 Geo. II. c. 26.) 

 And by 13 Geo. III. c. 44. the depofit for ever)^ tub and 

 cheft of bohea tea (hall be 4/. By 13 Geo. III. c. 44. 

 tea may be exported. No tea fliall be received, with or 

 without a permit, within the limits of the bills of mortality ; 

 and no tea, exceeding 2olbs. weight, fliall at one time be re- 

 ceived, with or without a permit, out of the faid limits, on 

 pain of forfeiture. (21 Geo. III. c. 55. 22 Geo. III. c.68. 

 23 Geo. III. c. 70.) All tea feized and condemned (hall 

 be fold to the beft bidder. (24 Geo. III. feff. 2. c. 47.) 

 Tea carried in the night, with or without a permit, except in 

 certain circumftances, (hall be forfeited, and may be feized 

 by any officer for the inland duties as tea. 21 Geo. III. 

 c. 55. 



Tea, Buckthorn. See Rhamnus. 



Tea, German. See Speedwell. 



Tea, Mexico, Chenopodium arnbrojioides of Linnseus, is a 

 fpecies of chenopodium, which, as well as the Jerufalem 

 oak, or chenopodium botrys, are natives of the fouthern 

 parts of Europe, and fown annually with us in gardens. 

 Infufions of the leaves and flowery heads of both thefe 

 plants, which are r.or unpalatable, drank as tea, are faid to 

 be of fervice in humoral afthmas and coughs, and other dif- 

 orders of the breaft ; they are fuppofed to be antifpafmodic 

 and antihyfleric. Lewis's Mat. Med. 



Tea, New Jerfey. See Ceanothus. 



Tea, New Zealand. See Philadelphls. 



Tea, Ofwego. See Monahda. 



Tea, Paraguay, or South Sea. See Paraguay. 



Tea, Wefl Indian. See Sida. 



Tea Soup, in Rural Economy, that which is prepai-ed 

 from the tea, liquid, or infufion of forae fort of vegetable 

 fubftance or other, fuch as hay, cut llraw, or haulm, &c. 

 by. thickening it a little -svith fome fort of mealy material, or 

 mafhed potatoes, or other fuch roots, after being boiled or 

 fteamcd. 



Tea, in Geography, a river of England, in the county 

 of Buckingham, which runs into the Oufe near Stony 

 Stratford. 



TEAHOWRAY. See Portland IJland. 



TEAK, or Teek, a fpecies of timber that occurs f»e- 

 quenlly in various paits of the Eaft Indies, and which is 

 applied to a variety of domcftic and nautical purpofes. Ex- 

 tenfive forefts of thefe trees border on the banks of the 

 Godavery within the mountains, and fupply abundance of 

 Ihip-timber for the adjacent ports. The teak forefts, from 

 which the marine yard at Bombay is furnifhed with that ex- 



cellent fpcciee of (liip-timber, lie along the weftern fide of 

 the Gaut mountains, and other contiguous ridges of hills, 

 as the N. and N.E. of Baffeen ; the uumerous rivulets that 

 defceiid from them affording water-carriage for the timber. 

 Major Rennell reproaches tiie unpardonable negligence with 

 which Europeans are chai-geable for delaying to build fhips 

 of war for the fervice of the Indian feas. They might be 

 freighted home, without the ceremony of regular equipment, 

 as to mafts, fails, and furniture ; which might be calculated to 

 anfwer the purpofe of the home-paffage at the beft feafon ; 

 and crews could be provided in India. Teak fhips of 40 

 years old and upwards are not uncommon in the Indian fe«;, 

 while an European fhip is ruined there in five years. The 

 teak is called the Indian oak. See Tectona. 



TEAKI, in Geography, an ifland in the Mediterranean ; 

 twenty miles long, and tour broad. This ifland was an- 

 ciently called " Ithaca," and is memorable in Grecian 

 hiftory for being the kingdom of Ulyffes ; fome Europeans 

 call it « Val de Compare." * N. lat. 38° 47'. E. long. 

 21° 40'. 



TEAL, QtiERQUEDULA, in Ornithology, the jinas crecca 

 of Linnxus, the fmalleft of all the duck kind. Its beak is 

 black, and its head, and upper part of its neck, of a r»ddifh- 

 brown ; but there runs on each fide of the head a green 

 ftreak from behind the eyes quite to the back part, and be- 

 tween thefe is a black fpot under the eyes ; there is a white 

 line which feparates the reddifh colour from the green. The 

 lower part of the neck, the fhoulders, and the fides, are 

 very beautifully variegated with black and white ftreaks ; 

 the breaft and belly are of a dullcy greyifh-white ; the firft 

 beautifully fpotted with black ; the vent black ; the tail 

 (harp-pointed and duflcy ; the coverts of the wings brown ; 

 the greater quill-feathers dufky ; the exterior webs of the 

 leffer marked with a gloffy green fpot, above which is an- 

 other of black, and the tips white ; tlie irides vi'hitifli, and 

 the legs dulky. The female is of a brownifh afh colour, 

 fpotted with black, and has a green fpot on the wing, like 

 the male. Ray and Pennant. See Duck. 



Teal, Crcjled, Qucrquedula crijlata, a name given by Bel- 

 lonius and fome others to a fpecies of duck, remarkable for 

 a tuft of feathers an inch and half long, hanging down 

 from the back part of the head, and thence called the tufted 

 duck ; but more known among authors by the name of capo 

 negro. See Duck. 



Teal, Summer, Anas circia of Linnxus, is apprehended 

 by Mr. Pennant to be no other than the female of our teal, 

 though Linnsus has defcribed it as a diftinft fpecies. See 

 Duck. 



Summer teal is alfo a name given in fome places to the 

 garganey. 



Team, Theam, or Thame, in our Ancient Ciyhms, 

 fignifics a royalty granted by the king's charter to a lord of 

 a manor, for the having, reftraining, and judging bondmen, 

 neifs, and villeins, with their children, goods, and chattels, 

 in his court. 



Team, in Agriculture, the number of horfes, oxen, or 

 other animals vi-hicli are drawing together at once in the 

 fame plough, cart, waggon, or other carriage. There is 

 a great variety of different forts of teams employed in field, 

 road, and other forts of labour, which is carried on by 

 means of domeftic animals ; and it is of very great import- 

 ance to afcertain which of them is of the greateft advantage, 

 and the chcapeft in the different ufes and intentions. 



In all forts of farming work, in the field as well as en the 

 road, the heavier kinds of ftrong horfes, and thofe of the clofc, 

 fhort, compadl, punch breeds, have hitlierto, for the moll 

 part, been employed for the purpofe of team labour ; and 



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