teem
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Is teem a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of teem?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (of rain, snow, etc) To fall prolifically.Examples: ""Troth, it's teemin' powerful this instiant up there in the mountains. 'Twill be much if you land home afore it's atop of you; […]""; "... rain teemed from the overcast skies, cold and penetrating, and life began to look like one enormous funeral procession."; "The snow teemed like white bugs against Mark's windshield for the entire long, silent, thirty-five-mile drive out to her new-rich fantasy- "The Farm" that she shared with my stepfather, Bill : […]"
2. (obsolete) To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.Examples: "If she must teem, / Create her child of spleen."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (archaic) To empty.Examples: "[The banksman] also puts the full tubs to the weighing machine, and thence to the skreens, upon which he teems the coals. It is also his duty to keep an account of the quantity of coals and stones drawn each day."; "“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked. “Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you teem it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”"archaic
2. (cooking, Scotland, Ireland) To drain the water from (boiled potatoes etc.).IrelandScotland
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, rare) To think fit.Examples: "Ah, said he, thou hast confessed and bewrayed all, I could teem it to rend thee in pieces"obsoleterare
Definition source: Wiktionary