teemful "-Ml 
teemful(tcin'fui),. [</mi + -t'ni.\ 1. PI-PR- teens (tr-nz), ;' [l'l- "'' '''"' < -'"" '! v -l 
mini; prolific. /HI/I. !>/</. 2f. Brimful, .liim- The numbers whose nameshavethetermination 
inn-Hi. -tec H ; especially, I lie years of one's atfe included 
[Verlil n. of Ircm' 1 , r.] 
teemingt (Wining), . 
The bringing forth of young. 
Like ;L \\ onuui with oft teemiti'j worn ; 
Who, with the Babes of her owne body Inirn, 
llaiini: iilinust stor'd n whole Townc with people, 
At length becomes IwiTeii, ami fiiint, and fertile. 
Hiilivttcr, tr. of IJu Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
At hint, when tffiuin;/ '1'lmo was come. Prior, The Mice, 
teeming (to'miii";), />. <i. Pregnant; prolific; 
fruitful; al)iindant; overflowing. 
What device should he bring forth now? 
within these numbers. These years begin with (/M. 
md end with iiiuetri'ii. and ilurliiK this period a per- 
son la said to he in Ills or her teens. 
VuriHx>ryiiiiiiK things, when they are once in tbetrrnx, 
think they ninill never I.e in >n i. 1 
.enileiinin Dancing-Master, Iv. 1. 
" Madam," sail) I (she and the century were in ili.i, 
item together), "all men are bores, except when we want 
them. O. W. Holme*, Autocrat, I. 
teeny 1 (tc'ni), . [< '''' + -y 1 -] Fretful; pce- 
vish. I/tilliiri'll. [Prov. Eng.] 
teeny- (te'ni), n. Very small: same an liny. 
llollnriJI. [Prov. Bug.; colloq., U. 8.] 
1 love 11 1,'rMiii'i wit as I love my nourishment. 
It. Jnmtun, Alchemist, v. 1. 
teeming-hole (ic'ining-hol), . A pit in which teepee,. *<< i'i<. 
a mold is placed which is used for casting cru- teepoy, . See tc,,,,,,,,. 
j I | | teer (t '!'), r. /. [< F. tinr. draw, pull: see tin-.] 
teeming-punch (te'ming-punch), n. A punch T f 8t . ir . as a calico-printers' sieve which is 
for Starting or driving a bolt from a hole; a ****&* on ,? frame ' , 
drift /' // Kiiiulit tsercelt, ". Same as tercel. 
teemiess'item'los), '. [< teem* + -less.] Not ^ rer , ('T^' ". Also "P 6 "^ 1 te " rer > <*"? 
fruitful or orolific- barren .Rare 1 + -erl. Cf.F. irer, one who draws or pulls, < 
tu.itluloi prolific; ban rer,draw.] In eaHc,>-,,rilii,,,, one who covers 
^;' i VT!',rUrt;.rc! l fl a7,^ 8 e art'fr rth ' "1th coloring matter (he .ieOe on which the 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, i. 228. block is pressed to become charged with color. 
teen 1 (ten), . [< ME. teeiie, tenc, teone, < AS. teesa (to'za), . [Native name.] The zuggun- 
tcniin, injury, vexation, = OS. tiono, injury, = falcon, Butaster Jusu&lly Poltomw) '* a bu ' 
Icel. tjoii, loss. Cf. teew 1 , t'., and teeny, tiny.] 
teonine hawk of India. Also 
1. Grief; sorrow; trouble; ill fortune"; harni". Teesdalia (tez-da'li-a), ._ [NL. (R. Brown, 
[Obsolete or archaic.] 
Almighty and al nicrciable quene, 
To whom that al this world fleeth for socour, 
To have relees of sinne, sorwe, and tene. 
, . 
Chaucer, A. B. C., 1. 8. 
And salr and lang mat their teen last, . . . 
That wrought thee sic a dowle cast. 
V 1 /,. Tin, Svstert (Child's Ballads, II. 241). 
For there, with bodily anguish keen, 
With Indian heats at last fordone, 
With public toll and private teen 
Thou sank'st, alone. 
M. Arnold, A Southern Night. 
2f. Vexation; anger; hate. 
Toax, In his tern, with a tore speire, 
Canplt to Cassibilan, the kynges son of Troy. 
1812), named from Robert Teesdale, author of a 
catalogue of plants.] A genus of polypetalous 
plants, of the order Cruciferee and tribe Thlas- 
Jiiilex, It Is characterized by smooth and acanlescent 
habit, stamens appendaged at the base, and the pod a 
broadly oblong compressed silicic. The two species are 
natives of western Europe and the Mediterranean region. 
They are small annuals with a rosette of pinnately lolied 
leaves, a naked or few-leaved scape, and small white flow- 
ers. See gJieptierd'8'CreHg. 
teeso (te'so), H. [E. Ind.] The flowers of Bitten 
frondosa, and probably of B. superba, used in 
India and China as a dye for cottons, giving 
Also tcesoo, tisso. 
yellow or orange tints. 
tee-square, . See T-square, under square 1 , 5. 
teesvt, A Middle English form of test 1 . 
Destruction of Troy (E.E.T.S.), 1.0809. teest 2 (test). H. [A dial, form (< ME. teest: see 
And Chedder, for mere grief his teen he could not wreak, teest 1 ) of test 1 (f ).] A small anvil used by sheet- 
Drayton, Polyolbion, ill. 283. iron wor kers; a stake. E. H. Knight. 
There is no such complacency to the wicked aa the tee-tee titi 1 (te'te), w. [S. Amer. titi; prob. 
wreaking their malicious ew on the 8^ ork8 n ^ imitative.] A South American squirrel-mon- 
key of either of the genera Callithrix and Chry- 
teen 1 (ten),. t. [Also dial, tine, formerly <ee; 
< MH. 1,'i'iK'ii, tfnen, teonen, (. AS. tynan, teonian 
= OS. ge-tiunean = OFries. tiona, tiuna, injure, 
vex, < tedna, injury, vexation: see teen 1 , .] To 
grieve ; afflict ; renexively, to be vexed. 
Sche told me a-nother tale that me tened sarre. 
T. 8.), I. 2025. 
Ouod wraththe, "loke thou here thee bolde ; 
What man thee teene, His heed thou breest." 
sothrijc . a pinche or ga i m iri. There are several 
8pecie8- ^ e cut under squirrel-monkey. 
^^g (t>te) [prob imitative .] f he div- 
; trel p e ^ fMHO i (les ( or Halodroma) urina- 
/n>. [Australia.] 
teeter (te'ter), v. i. [A dial. var. of titter^.] 
To ^^ ^ move u ^ and down in gee . 8aw 
rTT S 1 
J r, , 
. [< teeter, r.] A see-saw. 
An ' J^ 1 S"" 1 y u ' ve 8 ut to larn thet War al "' t e Ion 
Betwlxt x wan . to T wo , rt dUt debatln' like a skeetur 
Afore he lights all U, to give the other side a millin'. 
Lowell, Blglow Papers, 2d ser., III. 
Religious reverence doth buriall teene. 
Spenter, F. Q., II. i. 59. 
-teen. [< ME. -tene, < AS. -tene, -tyne = OS. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X P- 62. teeter _( te'ter) 
teen 2 (ten), v. t. [Also tinr; < ME. tinen, tiiinrn, 
< AS. tynan (= MD. tuynen, inclose, D. tuinen, 
walk in a garden, = OFries. be-tena = MLG. 
tinicn = OHG. ziinttn, zunen, MHG. ziunen, 
G. zaunen, inclose, fence), < tun, an inclosure: 
see town.] To inclose ; make a fence round, teetertail (te'ter-tal), n. A sandpiper ; a tilt- 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] up or tip-up; the spotted sandpiper, Tringoides 
teen 3 (ten), r. A corruption of teend for tind 1 . macularius: so called from the characteristic 
llnlliirell. [Prov. Eng.] see-saw motion of the hind parts. See cut 
teen 4 t, '' t. [Origin obscure.] To allot ; bestow, under Tringoides. [U.S.] 
But both alike, when death hath both supprest, teeth, . Plural of tooth. 
teethe (teTH), v. i. ; pret. and pp. teethed, ppr. 
teething. [< teeth, pi. of tooth.] To grow or cut 
_ . the teeth : as, a teething child. 
> = OFries. -tt-Hit, -tine = D. -tien = MLG. teething (te'THing), n. [Verbal n. of teetlie,v.] 
-tein = OHG. -zelian, MHG. -zchen, G. -zehn = Dentition ; the growth or formation of teeth ; 
Icel. -tan = Sw. -ton = Dan. -ten = Goth, -tai- the act or process of acquiring teeth, as when 
It mi = lj. -iltrini = Gr. -(<)<' = Skt. -rfaca, they cut the gums.- climacteric teething. See 
an element used in the numerals from thir- climacteric. 
teen (AS. threotyne) to nineteen (AS. nigon- teetotal (te'to'tal), a. [An emphatic redupli- 
triiti') inclusive; being AS. tenc, tyne, etc., ten, cation of total. There are two accounts of the 
origin of this word, (a) The Rev. Joel Jewell 
(according to various accounts, confirmed by a 
letter from him to the editor of this dictionary), 
secretary of a temperance society formed at 
Hector, New York, in 1818, on the basis of a 
pledge to abstain from distilled spirits but not 
from fermented liquors, introduced in January, 
1827, a pledge binding the signers to abstinence 
from all intoxicants. The two classes of sign- 
ers were distinguished as those who took the 
in composition: see ten.] A suffix used in the 
cardinal numerals from tliirli'i'ii to nineteen. 
meaning 'ten,' and expressing in these numer- 
als ten more than the amount indicated by the 
initial element. 
teenage (tc'iiaj), n. [< teen- + -age.] Wood 
for fences or inclosures. HaUiwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
teend, f. Same as Wnrf 1 . [Prov. Eng.] /m/i. 
met. 
teenfult (ten'ful), a. [< ME. tenefnl; < teenl + 
-fill.] Full of grief; sorrowful; afflicted. I'iers 
Plowman (B). iii. 345. 
teenfullyt (ten'ful-i), mlr. [< ME. tenefuUy ; < 
/n n I'//! + -/!/-.] Sorrowfully; with grief ; sad- 
ly. ' Wmam <>f rnlcnie (E. E. T. S.), 1. 436. 
old pledge," and had "O. P." placed before 
their names, and those who took the " new " or 
"total pledge" ("T."): the frequent explana- 
tion ;,'iven of these letters made "T. total" 
familiar. (6) Richard Turner, an artisan of 
Preston, in Lancashire, England, is said, in 
Tegenaria 
uilvortiting the principle of tMiipcnnn-r. about 
|s:s:',, to have maintained thill "nothing but 
I, -1,-lnliil will do"; while a variation of tliis 
account makes the artisan a stutterer. Both 
accounts appear to be correct, ami the word 
may have originated independently in the two 
countries. ] 1. Total; complete; entire: used 
emphatically. 2. Of. pertaining to, or for the 
promotion of total abstinence from intoxicat- 
ing liquors: as. a Irrlnl/il society, im cling, or 
pledge; the tulntiil cause. 
The iffMnl movement had been founded some yean 
earlier by the ({Makers of < 'oik. but it took no hold on the 
people till Theol.ald Malhe, a young Capuchin filar, 
j..incd it in 18,'W. 
W. S. Ureyg, Irish Hist, for Eng. Readers, p 14:1. 
3. Pledged to total abstinence from intoxicat- 
ing liquors. [Colloq.] 
I walk, I believe, 100 miles every week, and that I 
couldn't do, I know, if I wasn't tettotat. 
Miii/tinr. I don Labour and London Poor, I. 403. 
teetotaler, teetotaller (te'to'tal-er), . [< i> <- 
lutiil + -tr 1 .] One who more or less formally 
pledges or binds himself to entire abstinence 
from intoxicating liquors, unless medically pre- 
scribed; a total abstainer. 
But I am a treMallrr-iuiM the divinity-student In a 
subdued tone. O. W. Holmei, Professor, vi. 
teetotalism (t'to'tal-izm), . [< teetotal + 
-i.tm.] The principles or practice of teetotal- 
ers; total abstinence from intoxicating drink, 
or the total-abstinence movement. 
After a period distinguished by hard drinking and hard 
eating has come a period of comparative sobriety, which, 
in teetotalism and vegetarianism, exhibits extreme forms 
of Its protest against the riotous living of the past. 
H. Spencer, Education, p. 225. 
teetotally (te'to'tal-i), adv. Totally ; entirely : 
used emphatically. [Colloq.] 
Dinner was an ugly little parenthesis between two still 
uglier clauses of a teetotally ugly sentence. 
DC Quincey, Dinner, Real and Reputed. 
In Sir James Rpence's "Tour of Ireland," published in 
1829, he speaks of the word teetotally as an adverb In 
every-day use by the working classes. 
Edward*, Words, Facts, and Phrases, p. 561. 
tee-totum(te't6'tum), . [Also te-totum ; i.e., 
T-totum, totum represented by T, from the T 
marked upon it.] 1. A small four-sided toy of 
the top kind, used by children in a very old game 
of chance. Formerly the four sides exhibited respec- 
tively the letters A, T, N, D. The toy is set spinning, and 
wins and losses are determined according to the letter that 
turns up when the tee-totum has ceased whirling : thus, A 
(Latin anfer, take away) indicates that the player who has 
last spun is entitled to take one from the stakes ; D (dcpottr, 
put down), a forfeiture or laying down of a stake ; N (nihil, 
nothing), neither loss nor gain ; T((om, the whole) wins 
the whole of the stakes. In the modern tee-totum the D 
is commonly changed to P, and the reading also changed 
Into English : thus, T (take up), P (put down), A (ullx N 
(none). 
The usage of the te-totum may be considered as a kind 
of petty gambling, it being marked with a certain number 
of letters; and part of the stake is taken up, or an addi- 
tional part put down, according as those letters lie upper- 
most Strati, Sports and Pastimes, p. 492. 
2. A similar toy used for spinning in the same 
manner, but circular or having an indefinite 
number of sides, and without the marks above 
described: used as a plaything or in different 
games by children. 
tee-wheep (te-hwep'), . [Imitative.] Same 
as pewit (6). See cut under lapwing. [Local, 
British.] 
te-fall (te'fal), n. Same as to-fall. [Prov. 
Eng. or Scotch.] 
teff (tef ), n. [Native name ; also written taff, 
thaff, the/.] An annual cereal grass, Poa 
Abyssinica, the most important food-plant of 
Abyssinia. Its grains, which are of the size of a pin- 
head, afford a very white flour which makes an excellent 
bread of an agreeable acidulous taste. 
teftt (teft), a. [A var. of tight (ME. "trijht. 
tight); cf. draft, var. of draught, dafler, a dial, 
var. of daughter, etc.: see tight, taut.] Tight; 
taut. 
Away they fly, their tackling tfjt and tight, 
Top and top-gallant in the bravest sort. 
Peele, Tale of Troy. 
teg (teg), w. [Also tegg ; origin obscure. Pos- 
sibly an arbitrary variation, with complemen- 
tary sense, of steg, stag.] 1. A female fallow- 
deer; a doe in the second year. 2. Same as 
tag 3 . 
Tegenaria (tej-e-na'ri-a), n. [NL. (Latreille, 
1804).] A notable genus of spiders, of the fam- 
ily Agalenidse. They are medium-sized hairy spiders, 
having the superior spinnerets longest, two-jointed, and 
the anterior lateral eyes larger than the anterior middle 
eyes. They live in cellars and other dark places. The 
genus is of very wide distribution ; two species are found 
in the United States, T. derhami and T. breri*. 
