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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

... entertained each other, but in what manner I will not pretend to say; though, if I may depend upon my information, which, by-the-by, was very good, their taste and mine would not at all agree. In a word, these countries teem with more singularities than I choose to mention." You will conclude I had very little to say when I had recourse to the observations of such a simpleton; but I thought they would divert you for a moment, ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole

... profounds the blind bathybus lies. Fecundity flings her seeds and spores into the glazed abysses, and they teem. There is a heaving in the broken, sunless bottoms; the continents and islands are upcast, rugged and black, shaking the ...

— The Masque of the Elements • Herman Scheffauer

... hours, awake, With visions sometimes teem, Which to the slumbering brain would take The form ...

— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald

... the want of a small sum spent on the roof, it would be a lasting disgrace to the nation. There are so many genuine book-lovers in Fatherland that the commission of such a crime would seem incredible, did not bibliographical history teem with similar desecrations.[1] ...

— Enemies of Books • William Blades

... sea, so we admire the sky, the stars, the sun, and the moon. Do any of these belong to thee? Darest thou boast of the beauty which any of them have? Art thou thyself adorned with May flowers? Or doth thy fertility teem with the fruits of summer? Why rejoicest thou vainly? Why embracest thou outward goods as if they were thine own? Fortune will never make those things thine which by the appointment of Nature belong not to thee. The fruits of the earth are doubtless appointed for the sustenance of living creatures. ...

— The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy • Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

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