Hypertext Webster Gateway: "teemed"

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.

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