Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 13

Teaberry (n.) The checkerberry.

Taught (imp. & p. p.) of Teach

Teaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teach

Teach (v. t.) To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to teach arithmetic, dancing, music, or the like; to teach morals.

Teach (v. t.) To direct, as an instructor; to manage, as a preceptor; to guide the studies of; to instruct; to inform; to conduct through a course of studies; as, to teach a child or a class.

Teach (v. t.) To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.

Teach (v. i.) To give instruction; to follow the business, or to perform the duties, of a preceptor.

Teachable (a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.

Teachableness (n.) Willingness to be taught.

Teache (n.) One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series.

Teacher (n.) One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor.

Teacher (n.) One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.

Teaching (n.) The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught; instruction.

Teachless (a.) Not teachable.

Teacup (n.) A small cup from which to drink tea.

Teacupfuls (pl. ) of Teacupful

Teacupful (n.) As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.

Tead (n.) Alt. of Teade

Teade (n.) A torch.

Teagle (n.) A hoisting apparatus; an elevator; a crane; a lift.

Teague (n.) An Irishman; -- a term used in contempt.

Teak (n.) A tree of East Indies (Tectona grandis) which furnishes an extremely strong and durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes; also, the timber of the tree.

Teakettle (n.) A kettle in which water is boiled for making tea, coffee, etc.

Teal (n.) Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

Team (n.) A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.

Team (n.) Hence, a number of animals moving together.

Team (n.) Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.

Team (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.

Team (n.) A flock of wild ducks.

Team (n.) A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.

Team (v. i.) To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.

Team (v. t.) To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.

Teamed (a.) Yoked in, or as in, a team.

Teaming (n.) The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

Teaming (n.) Contract work.

Teamster (n.) One who drives a team.

Teamwork (n.) Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

Teapot (n.) A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

Teapoy (n.) An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

Tear (n.) A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.

Tear (n.) Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

Tear (n.) That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

Tore (imp.) of Tear

Tare () of Tear

Torn (p. p.) of Tear

Tearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tear

Tear (v. t.) To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

Tear (v. t.) Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

Tear (v. t.) To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

Tear (v. t.) To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

Tear (v. t.) To move violently; to agitate.

Tear (v. i.) To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

Tear (v. i.) To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Tearer (n.) One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

Tear-falling (a.) Shedding tears; tender.

Tearful (a.) Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes.

Tearless (a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.

Tearpit (n.) A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

Teary (a.) Wet with tears; tearful.

Teary (a.) Consisting of tears, or drops like tears.

Tea-saucer (n.) A small saucer in which a teacup is set.

Teased (imp. & p. p.) of Tease

Teasing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tease

Tease (v. t.) To comb or card, as wool or flax.

Tease (v. t.) To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

Tease (v. t.) To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.

Tease (v. t.) To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.

Tease (n.) One who teases or plagues.

Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

Teasel (n.) A bur of this plant.

Teasel (n.) Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.

Teaseled (imp. & p. p.) of Teasel

Teaselled () of Teasel

Teaseling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Teasel

Teaselling () of Teasel

Teasel (v. t.) To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.

Teaseler (n.) One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.

Teaseling (n.) The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.

Teaser (n.) One who teases or vexes.

Teaser (n.) A jager gull.

Teasle (n. & v. t.) See Teasel.

Teaspoon (n.) A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.

Teaspoonfuls (pl. ) of Teaspoonful

Teaspoonful (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

Teat (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

Teat (n.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

Teated (a.) Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.

Teathe (n. & v.) See Tath.

Teatish (a.) Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.

Teaze-hole (n.) The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.

Teazel (n. & v. t.) See Teasel.

Teazer (n.) The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.

Teazle (n. & v. t.) See Teasel.

Tebeth (n.) The tenth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of December with a part of January.

Techily (adv.) In a techy manner.

Techiness (n.) The quality or state of being techy.

Technic (a.) Technical.

Technic (a.) The method of performance in any art; technical skill; artistic execution; technique.

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