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Entry 6 senses · 4 variants Webster, 1913

Teem

/tēm/ · IPA /tiːm/
01 v. t. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
  1. 1.
    To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. 2.
    To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.(Steel Manuf.)
02 v. t. To think fit.
  1. 1.
    To think fit.[Obs. or R.]
03 v. i. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
imp. & p. p. Teemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Teeming
  1. 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. 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.
04 v. t. To produce; to bring forth.
  1. 1.
    To produce; to bring forth.[R.]
    “That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one.” Shak.