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What's The Definition Of Teem?

\Teem\, v. t. [Icel. t[ae]ma to empty, from t[=o]mr empty; akin to Dan. t["o]mme to empty, Sw. t["o]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.
\Teem\, v. t. [See {Tame}, a., and cf. {Beteem}.] To think fit. [Obs. or R.] --G. Gifford.
\Teem\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Teemed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Teeming}.] [OE. temen, AS. t[=e]man, t?man, from te['a]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.
\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.