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English Dictionary: TEEM/ by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teem \Teem\, v. t. [Icel. t[91]ma to empty, from t[d3]mr empty;
      akin to Dan. t[94]mme to empty, Sw. t[94]mma. See {Toom} to
      empty.]
      1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
            [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Swift.
  
      2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to
            fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teem \Teem\, v. t. [See {Tame}, a., and cf. {Beteem}.]
      To think fit. [Obs. or R.] --G. Gifford.

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[c7]man, t[?]man, from te[a0]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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teem \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.                  --Shak.
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