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Teem v. t.

To pour; commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)

(Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

Teem v. t. To think fit. (Obs. or R.)

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."

Teem v. i. (past & past part. teemed; pres. part. teeming)

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."

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." "The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time."

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"Teem" Quotes from Famous Books

... upon your lute you will weave a theme Which the world will harken and know; For every note of the song will teem With a great soul's overflow— You will speak the meaning within a dream And the pain ...

— The Rose-Jar • Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones

... the amateur has still a great deal to acquire. He may now know a real Elzevir from a book which is not an Elzevir at all. But there are enormous differences of value, rarity, and excellence among the productions of the Elzevirian press. The bookstalls teem with small, "cropped," dingy, dirty, battered Elzevirian editions of the classics, NOT "of the good date." On these it is not worth while to expend a couple of shillings, especially as Elzevirian type is too small to be read with comfort by most modern eyes. No, let the ...

— Books and Bookmen • Andrew Lang

... consumed," replied Tom, "in London is comparatively small, fish being excessively dear in general: and this is perhaps the most culpable defect in the supply of the capital, considering that the rivers of Great Britain and the seas round her coast teem with that food.—There are on an average about 2500 cargoes of fish, of 40 tons each, brought to Billingsgate, and about 20,000 tons by land carriage, making a total of about 120,000 tons; and the street venders form a sample of low ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... 'The ballads teem with imagination, they palpitate with emotion. We read them with laughter and tears; the metres throb in our pulses, the cunningly ordered words tingle with life; and if this be not poetry, what is?'—Pall ...

— The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

... passionate delight in reading which characterizes the years from about ten to fifteen and is especially marked from twelve to fourteen. The choice of books will naturally be governed by the strongest interests. We are not surprised, therefore, that every page must teem with life and chronicle some achievement, preferably in the physical realm, for in the thought of the junior, "Greater is he that taketh a city than he who ruleth ...

— The Unfolding Life • Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

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