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Teem
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift.
2. To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To think fit. [Obs. or R.] G. Gifford.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To produce; to bring forth. [R.] That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one. Shak.