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- English Word Tease Definition To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments.
- English Word Tease Definition To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague.
- English Word Tease Definition One who teases or plagues.
- English Word Teased Definition of Tease
- English Word Teasel Definition A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.
- English Word Teasel Definition A bur of this plant.
- English Word Teasel Definition Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth.
- English Word Teasel Definition To subject, as woolen cloth, to the action of teasels, or any substitute for them which has an effect to raise a nap.
- English Word Teaseled Definition of Teasel
- English Word Teaseler Definition One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth.
- English Word Teaseling Definition of Teasel
- English Word Teaseling Definition The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
- English Word Teaselled Definition of Teasel
- English Word Teaselling Definition of Teasel
- English Word Teaser Definition One who teases or vexes.
- English Word Teaser Definition A jager gull.
- English Word Teasing Definition of Tease
- English Word Teasle Definition See Teasel.
- English Word Teaspoon Definition A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.
- English Word Teaspoonful Definition As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
- English Word Teaspoonfuls Definition of Teaspoonful
- English Word Teat Definition The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
- English Word Teat Definition A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.
- English Word Teated Definition Having protuberances resembling the teat of an animal.
- English Word Teathe Definition See Tath.
- English Word Teatish Definition Peevish; tettish; fretful; -- said of a child. See Tettish.
- English Word Teaze-hole Definition The opening in the furnaces through which fuel is introduced.
- English Word Teazel Definition See Teasel.
- English Word Teazer Definition The stoker or fireman of a furnace, as in glass works.
- English Word Teazle Definition See Teasel.