Hypertext Webster Gateway: "teem"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Teem \Teem\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Teemed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Teeming}.] [OE. temen, AS. t[=e]man, t?man, from te['a]m.
See {Team}.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Teem \Teem\, v. t.
To produce; to bring forth. [R.]
That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
Each minute teems a new one. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Teem \Teem\, v. t. [Icel. t[ae]ma to empty, from t[=o]mr empty;
akin to Dan. t["o]mme to empty, Sw. t["o]mma. See {Toom} to
empty.]
1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Swift.
2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to
fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Teem \Teem\, v. t. [See {Tame}, a., and cf. {Beteem}.]
To think fit. [Obs. or R.] --G. Gifford.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
teem
v : be teeming, be abuzz [syn: {swarm}]
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