teak 
Iron. It is exported in large quantities to Great Britain, 
and somewhat to other countries, chiefly for this use and 
for building railway-carriages, and is employed in India 
for these and many other purposes. The oil is extracted 
from the wood in Burma, and used medicinally and as 
a substitute for linseed-oil and as a varnish. A tar used 
medicinally is also distilled from it, and the leaves afford 
a red dye. The name is applicable to the other species of 
Tectona. African teak. Same as African oafr(which see, 
under oat). - Bastard teak, the East Indian Ptcrocarpus 
Marsupium. It is the most important source of kino, and 
affords in its heart-wood a timber brown with dark streaks, 
very hard and durable, and taking a flue polish, used in 
house-building and for making furniture, agricultural 
implements, etc. The name is also applied to the dhak, 
or Bengal kino-tree, Buteaf random. Ben teak, the wood 
of Lagerstmmia micracarpa; also, a low grade of true teak. 
New Zealand teak, a tree, Vitex lUtaralis, 50 or 60 feet 
high yielding a hard fissile timber indestructible under 
water. -Teak or teakwood of New South. Wales, a 
small laurineous tree, Eiidiandra glauca, with a hard, 
close- and fine-grained wood. This tree appears, how- 
ever, to belong to Queensland, where also another tree, 
Dismlaria balai/ldmdcs of the Euphorbiacese, is called teak. 
White teak Flinderaa Oxleyana of Queensland, a tall 
slender much-branched tree, with wood said to be used 
for staves and for cabinet-work. Also yeUowwood. 
tea-kettle (te'kef'l), . A portable kettle with 
spout and handle, in which to boil water for 
making tea and for other uses. 
teak-tree (tek'tre), . See teak. 
teak-wood (tek'wud), n. The wood of the teak- 
tree ; teak. The Engineer, LXVI. 516. 
teal 1 (tel), n. [Early mod. E. teale; < ME. tele; 
cf. D. tiling, taling, MD. teelingh, talingh, a teal; 
origin unknown. Of. OSc. atteal, atteile, Scand. 
atling, atteling-and (Brunnich, "Ornithol. Bore- 
alis,"p. 18, cited in Encyc.Brit., XXIII. 105), the 
name of a bird mentioned in conjunction with 
teal.~\ A small fresh-water duck, of the sub- 
family Anatinee and genus Querquedula (or Nei- 
tionj. There are numerous species, in all parts of the 
world. The best-known are 2 in Europe and 8 in the 
United States. The common teal of Europe is Q. crecca, 
very similar to the green-winged American teal, y. caroli- 
nensis, but lacking a white crescentic mark on the side of 
the breast in front of the wing which is conspicuous in 
the other. The summer teal of Europe is Q. circia, the 
garganey. American teal, the American greenwing, 
Querquedula carolitwnsis. Latham, 1790. Also called 
locally least green-winged, mud, red-headed, and winter 
teal. Blue- winged teal, the American bluewing, Quer- 
6200 
Teale's operation. See operation. 
team (tem), n. [Early mod. E. also teem ; < ME. 
tern, tfcm, team, < AS. team = OS. torn = OFries. 
tam= MLG. torn, LG. loom, progeny, offspring, 
family, a family; of similar form with D. fount, 
rein, = MLG. torn, rein, LG. toom = OHG. 
MHG. zoum, G. gaum, bridle, = Icel. taumr = 
tear 
tea-oil (te'oil), . An oil expressed in China 
from the seeds of Camellia Sasanqua, an ally 
of the common tea-plant. It resembles olive-oil, is 
used for many domestic purposes, and forms a consider- 
able article of trade. The residual cake, owing to the 
presence of a glucoside, is used as a hair-wash and a soap, 
as a fish-poison, and for destroying earthworms. A nar- 
cotic essential oil also is distilled from tea-leaves. 
Sw. torn = Dan. tomme, rein; prob., with for- tea-party (te'par'ti), n. An entertainment at 
mative -/, < AS. teon, etc. (Tout. V *<7. <'<), which tea and other refreshments are served; 
draw: see tee 1 , tow 1 , tug.] If. Family; off- also, the persons assembling at such an enter- 
spring; progeny. Robert of Gloucester, p. 261. tainment. 
2f. Race; lineage. 
This child is come of gentille feme. 
Torrent of Portugal, 1. 2022. 
3. A litter or brood ; a pair. 
A team of ducklings about her. Holland. 
A few teams of ducks bred in the moors. 
Gilbert White, Nat. Hist, of Selborne, To T. Pennant, xi. 
4. A number, series, or line of animals moving 
together ; a flock. 
Like a long team of snowy swans on high. 
Dryden, ^Eneid, vii. 965. 
5. Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts 
harnessed together for drawing, as to a coach, 
chariot, wagon, cart, sleigh, or plow. In the 
United States the term is frequently used for the vehicle 
and the horses or oxen together. In statutes exempting 
from sale on execution, a team includes one or more ani- 
mals and the vehicle and harness, such as are all used 
together. 
The Sun, to shun this Tragike sight, a-pace 
Turns back his Teem. 
Sylvester, tr. of DuBartas's Weeks, ii., The Handy-Crafts. 
For them ... a team of four bays [will have become] as 
fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, vii. 
If he [the traveler] desires amusement, he may hire a 
team, and observe life from a buggy in Central Park. 
Cornhitt Mag., N. S., No. 64, p. 373. 
6. A number of persons associated, as for the 
But though our worthy ancestors were thus singularly 
averse to giving dinners, yet they kept up the social bands 
of intimacy by occasional banquetings, called tea-parties. 
Jrving, Knickerbocker, p. 169. 
Boston tea-party, a humorous name given to a revolu- 
tionary proceeding at Boston, December 16th, 1773, in pro- 
test against the tax upon tea imposed by the British gov- 
ernment on the American colonies. About fifty men in the 
disguise of Indians boarded the tea-ships in the harbor, 
and threw the tea overboard. 
tea-plant (te'plant), n. The plant that yields 
tea. See tea 1 , 2 Barbary tea-plant. SeeLytium. 
Canary Island tea-plant. See Sida. Lettsom's 
tea-plant. See Lettsomia. 
tea-pot (te'pot), n. A vessel in which tea is 
made, or from which it is poured into tea-cups. 
A tempest in a tea-pot. See tempest. 
teapoy (te'poi), . [More prop, tepoy, teepoy 
(the spelling teapoy simulating or suggesting a 
connection with tea) ; < Hind, tipai, a corrup- 
tion of Pers. sipai, a three-legged table.] Ori- 
ginally, a small three-legged table or stand; 
hence, by extension, a small table for the tea- 
service, having three or four legs. 
Kate and I took much pleasure in choosing our tea-pays; 
hers had a mandarin parading on the top, and mine a flight 
of birds and a pagoda. S. 0. Jewett, Deephaven, p. 84. 
tear 1 (tar), v.; pret. tore (formerly tare), pp. 
[< ME. teren, teeren (pret. 
torn> ppr tearing. 
tar, pp. toren), < AS. teran (pret. tier, pp. toren), 
performance of a definite piece of work, or form- rend, tear, = OS. far-terian, destroy, =D. teren 
ing one of the parties or sides in a game, match, = MLG. teren, consume, = OHG. firzeran, loose, 
1 
or the like : as, a team of foot-ball or base-ball 
players. [Colloq.] 
Hear me, my little teem of villains, hear me. 
Massingcr, Virgin-Martyr, iv. 
destroy, tear, MHG. zern (ver-zern), G. zehren, 
misuse, consume, = Icel. tsera = Sw. tdra = 
Dan. txre, consume, = Goth, ga-tairan, break, 
destroy, = Gr. Sipuv, flay (see derm, etc.), = 
HII.I*;/... , . ..,. .".wji, ... UCOLIVJV, ^^ \Ji. VC^Ctl/. llll \ ^OCO MO til-, 15W.J, ^^ 
7. In Eng. universities, the pupils of a coach, or OBulg. dera, tear.] I. trans. 1. To rend; pull 
private tutor. [Slang.] 
A mathematical tutor can drive a much larger team than 
a classical ; the latter cannot well have more than three 
men construing to him at a time. 
C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 191. 
8. In Anglo-Saxon law, the right or franchise 
sometimes granted to compel holders of lost 
or stolen goods to give up the name of the per- 
son from whom they were received, by requir- 
ing such a holder to vouch to warranty. See 
vouch Jersey team. Same as Jersey mates (which 
see, under motel). 
team (tem), v. [Early mod. E. also teem; < team, 
.] I. trans. 1. To join together in a team. 
By this the Night forth from the darksome bowre 
Of Herebus her teemed steedes gan call. 
Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 314. 
Blue-winged Teal (Qucrqitectula tiiscors), male. 
quedula discors. Also called locally white-faced teal or 
duck, and summer teal. Cinnamon teal, Querquedula 
cyanopiera, of western North America and South Ameri- 
ca : so called from the color of the under parts of the adult 
male. Cricket-teal, the garganey, Querquedula circia: 
so called from its cry. Goose-teal, a goslet. Salt-wa- 
ter or brown diving teal, the ruddy duck, Ertematura 
rubida. See cut under Erismatura. Giraud, 1884 ; Trum- 
bull, 1888. [Chesapeake Bay and Florida.] Scotch teal. 
Same as Scotch duck (which see, under duckZ). Summer 
teal. () The garganey. Also summer duck. [Eng.] (&) 
The blue-winged teal. 
teal 2 (tel), n. [< *tcal, v., prob. a var. of till 3 
or toll 2 .} The act of cajoling or wheedling. 
[Scotch.] 
"Auld Will's" "cracks" and "teofe"and "lies" were 
well known to the curious in every corner of the kingdom. 
Athenaeum, No. 3255, p. 343. 
teal 3 (tel), n. A Welsh dry measure, equal to 
five Winchester bushels (nearly). A long teal 
in Pembrokeshire is about eight bushels. 
Tealby series. A division of the Lower Green- 
sand in Lincolnshire, England: so named by 
Judd. It consists of beds of limestone, is from 40 to 50 
feet thick, and is underlain by a mass of sandstone of about 
the same thickness. 
teal-duck (tel'duk), w. A teal; especially, the 
common European teal, Querquedula crecca. 
tea-lead (te'led), n. Thin sheet-lead, used in 
lining tea-chests. 
tea-leaf (te'lef), n. 1 . The leaf of the tea-plant. 
2. pi. Tea that has been soaked or infused. 
An extensive trade, but less extensive, I am informed, 
than it was a few years ago, is carried on in tea-leaves, or 
in the leaves of the herb after their having been subjected 
in the usual way to decoction. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, II. 149. 
the near horses. Encyc. Brit., II. 663. 
2. To work, convey, haul, or the like with a 
team. Imp. Diet. 3. In contractors' work, to 
give out (portions of the work) to a gang or team 
under a subcontractor. [Colloq.] 
II. intrans. To do work with a team. 
teaming (te'ming), n. 1. The act of hauling 
earth, goods, etc. , with a team. 2. In contract- 
ors' work, a certain mode of doing the work 
which is given out to a "boss," who hires a 
gang or team to do it, and is responsible to the 
owner of the stock. E. H. Knight. 
team-shovel (tem'shuv"!), n. An earth-scraper, 
or scoop for moving earth, drawn by horses or 
oxen, and having handles by which it is guided. 
See cut under scraper. E. H. Kniglit. 
teamster (tem'ster), re. [< team + -ster.~\ One 
who drives a team, or is engaged in the busi- 
ness of teaming. 
Western teamsters are renowned for their powers of con- 
tinuous execration. A. Geikie, Geol. Sketches, x. 
teamwise (tem'wiz), a. Being like a team; 
harnessed together. 
That his swift charet might have passage wyde 
Which foure great hippodames did draw in temewise tyde. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 40. 
team-work (tem'werk), n. 1. Work done by 
a team of horses, oxen, etc., as distinguished 
from manual labor. [U. S.] 2. Work done 
by the players collectively in a base-ball nine, 
a foot-ball eleven, etc. : as, the team-work of 
the nine is excellent. [Colloq., U. S.] 
Tean, a. See Teian. 
apart or in pieces ; make a rent or rents in : as, 
to tear one's clothes ; to tear up a letter. 
We schulen foonde euery-choon, 
Alle to-gidere, bothe hool [whole] A some, 
To teer him from the top to the toon [toes]. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X p. 48. 
O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious peri- 
wig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to 
split the ears of the groundlings. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 2. 11. 
They spared na the curtains to tear them. 
Duke of AthoVs Nourice (Child's Ballads, VIII. 232). 
2. To produce or effect by rending or some 
similar action : as, to tear a hole in one's dress. 
Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot 
Unlikely wonders ; how these vain weak nails 
May tear a passage through the flinty ribs 
Of this hard world. Shak., Rich. II., v. 5. 20. 
3. To lacerate ; wound in the surface, as by the 
action of teeth or of something sharp rudely 
dragged over it : as, to tear the skin with thorns : 
also used figuratively : as, a heart torn with an- 
guish ; a party or a church torn by factions. 
Filial ingratitude ! 
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand 
For lifting food to 't? Shak., Lear, iii. 4. 15. 
4. To drag or remove violently or rudely ; pull 
or pluck with violence or effort ; force rudely 
or unceremoniously ; wrench ; take by force : 
with/ro>, down, out, off, etc. 
She complayneth . . . that sometimes he speaketh so 
many and so greate despiteful wordes that they breake her 
hart, & tear ye teares out of her eyes. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 310. 
Must my soul be thus torn away from the things it loved, 
and go where it will hate to live and can never die? 
StUlinffJleet, Sermons, I. xi. 
Idols of gold, from heathen temples torn. 
Scott, Vision of Don Roderick, The Vision, st. 31. 
To tear a catt, to rant ; rave ; bluster. 
I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to 
make all split. Shak., 11. N. D., i. 2. 32. 
To tear one's self away, to go off unwillingly. [Colloq. ] 
To tear the hair, or to tear one's beard, to pull the 
hair or beard in a violent or distracted manner, as a sign 
of grief or rage. 
Gods ! I could tear my beard to hear you talk ! 
Addison, Cato, ii. 5. 
To tear up. (a) To remove from a fixed state by vio- 
lence : as, to tear up a tree by the roots. (6) To pull to 
pieces or shreds; rend completely : as, to tear up a piece 
of paper ; to tear up a sheet into strips. =Syn. 1. Rip, 
Split, etc. See rendi. 
II. intrans. 1. To part, divide, or separate 
on being pulled or handled with more or less 
violence: as, cloth that tears readily. 2. To 
