TEA 
lower class of the people." Dr. Johnson’s Review of Han- 
way’s Journal.] A Chinese plant of which the infusion has 
lately been much drunk in Europe. 
The muse’s friend, tea, does our fancy aid, 
Repress those vapours which the head invade. Waller. 
When you sweep, never stay to pick up tea spoons. 
Swift. 
To TEACH, to. a. pret. and part, pass., taught, some¬ 
times teached, -which is now obsolete, [caecan, Saxon. Dr. 
Johnson. —From the Swed. te ; Icel. tin, to show; the deri¬ 
vation of which by Stiernh. from the M. Goth, ataugian, to 
show; (compounded of at, to, and augo, the eye,) Serenius 
pronounces highly ingenious and probable. See also Wachter 
in V. Zf.igen.] To instruct; to inform, as a master; cor¬ 
relative to learn. 
I am too sudden bold. 
To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me. Shakspeare. 
To deliver any doctrine or art, or words to be learned.— 
They teach all nations what of him they learned. Milton. 
—To show ; to exhibit so as to impress upon the mind.—He 
is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can 
easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be 
one of the twenty to follow my own teaching. Shakspeare. 
—To tell; to give intelligence. 
Huswives are teached, instead of a clocke. 
How winter night passeth by crowing of cocke. Tusser. 
To TEACH, v. n. To perform the office of an instructor. 
I have labour’d 
And with no little study, that my teaching. 
And the strong course of my authority, 
Might go one way. Shakspeare. 
TE'ACHABLE, adj. Docile; susceptive of instruction. 
—’Tis sufficient that matters of faith and religion be pro¬ 
pounded in such a way, as to render them highly credible, 
so as an honest and teachable man may willingly and safely 
assent to them, and according to the rules of prudence be 
justified in so doing. Wilkins. 
TE'ACH ABLENESS, s. Docility; willingness to learn; 
capacity to learn.—Docility, teachableness, tractableness, is 
the property of wisdom; and he that is wise, is nearest unto 
happiness. Granger. 
TE'ACHER, s. One who teaches; an instructor; pre¬ 
ceptor. 
I went into the temple, there to hear 
The teachers of our law, and to propose 
What might improve my knowledge or their own. Milton. 
One who without regular ordination assumes the ministry. 
—Dissenting teachers are under no incapacity of accepting 
civil and military employments. Swift. —A preacher; one 
who is to deliver doctrine to the people.—Wolves shall suc¬ 
ceed for teachers. Milton. 
TEACHES, an island of the United States, on the coast 
of Virginia, in Northampton county. 
TEAD, or Tede, s. [tede, old Fr. ; tceda, Lat.] A torch; 
a flambeau. Not in use. 
A bushy tend a groom did light. 
And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide. Spenser. 
TEAGUE, s. A name of contempt used for an Irishman. 
His case appears to be like honest Teague's, 
When he was run away with by his legs. Prior. 
TEAL, s. [ teelingh , Dutch.] A wild fowl of the duck 
kind.—Some serve for food to us, and some but to feed them¬ 
selves; amongst the first sort we reckon the dip chick, coots, 
teal, wigeon. Carew. 
TEALBY, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 4f miles 
east-north-east of Market Raisin. Population 629. 
TEALING, a parish of Scotland, in Forfarshire, lying on 
the south side of the Sidlaw hills, about three miles in length, 
and from one to two in breadth. Population 779. 
TEAM, s. [tenio, the team of a carriage, Latin; team, 
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Sax. a poke.'] A number of horses or oxen drawing at once 
the same carriage. 
Making such difference betwixt wake and sleep, 
As is the diff’rence between day and night. 
The hour before the heav’nly harness’d team 
Begins his golden progress in the East. Shakspeare. 
Any number passing in a line. 
Like a long team of snowy swans on high, 
Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky. Dryden. 
To TEAM, v. a. To join together in a team. 
By this the Night forth from the darksome bower 
Of Erebus her teamed steeds gan call. Spenser. 
TEAN, Upper and Lower, two hamlets of England, 
in Staffordshire, near the Tean river, which runs into the 
Dove between Cheadle and Checkley. 
TEANO, a small town of Italy, in the north-west of the 
kingdom of Naples, in the Terra di Lavoro, with several 
churches, an hospital, and 3100 inhabitants. It is the see of 
a bishop, and has one of the Catholic establishments styled 
Conservatorio della Nunziata; 12 miles north-west of Capua, 
and 27 north-north-west of Naples. 
TEA POT CREEK, a small river of North America. 
TEAR, s. [ea in this word is pronounced ee; and tear 
rhymes to cheer ; tagr, M. Goth.; reap, Sax.; daigr, Welsh 
and Armor.; S angvov, Gr.; all signifying the same.] The 
water which violent passion forces from the eyes. 
She comes; and I’ll prepare 
My /ertr-stain’d eyes to see her miseries. Shakspeare. 
Any moisture trickling in drops. 
Let Araby extol her happy coast, 
Her fragrant flow’rs, her trees with precious tears, 
Her second harvests. Dryden. 
To TEAR, v. a. pret. tore, anicently tare-, part. pass. 
torn. [ tiairan gatairan, M. Goth.; taera, Su. Goth.; 
tsepan, Saxon : ea is pronounced as a, and tear rhymes to 
square .] To pull in pieces; to lacerate; to rend; to 
separate by violent pulling. 
Come seeling night. 
And with thy bloody and invisible hand 
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond 
Which keeps me pale. Shakspeare. 
To laniate; to wound with any sharp point drawn 
along. 
Old men with dust deform’d their hoary hair, 
The women beat their breasts, their cheeks they tare. 
Shakspeare. 
To break or fake away by violence. 
As storms the skies, and torrents tear the ground, 
Thus rag’d the prince, and scatter’d death around. Dryden. 
To divide violently ; to shatter.—Is it not as much reason 
to say, that God destroys fatherly authority, when he suffers 
one in possession of it to have his government torn in pieces, 
and shared by hissubje'cts? Locke .—To pull with violenee; 
to drive violently.—He roar’d, he beat his breast, he tore his 
hair. Dryden. 
Blush rather, that you area slave to passion, 
Which, like a whirlwind, tears up all your virtues, 
And gives you not the leisure to consider. A. Philips. 
To take away by sudden violence. 
The hand of fate 
Has torn thee from me, and I must forget thee. Addison. 
To make a violent rent. 
In the midst a tearing groan did break. 
The name of Antony. Shakspeare. 
To TEAR, v. n. [tieren, Dutch.] To fume; to rave; 
to rant turbulently.—All men transported into outrages 
for small trivial matters, fall under the inuendo of this bull 
that ran tearing mad for the pinching of a mouse. L'Es¬ 
trange. 
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