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The act or occupation of driving a team, or of hauling or carrying, as logs, goods, or the like, with a team.

One who drives a team.

Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.

A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

d by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear. Chaucer.

Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] "Tear-falling pity." Shak.

A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles.

One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearful eyes. -- Tear"ful*ly, adv. -- Tear"ful*ness, n.

Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.

A cavity or pouch beneath the lower eyelid of most deer and antelope; the lachrymal sinus; larmier. It is capable of being opened at pleasure and secretes a waxy substance.

Wet with tears; tearful.

To comb or card, as wool or flax. "Teasing matted wool." Wordsworth.

Any contrivance intended as a substitute for teasels in dressing cloth. Teasel frame, a frame or set of iron bars in which teasel heads are fixed for raising the nap on woolen cloth.

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]

The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels. [Written also teaselling, teazling.]

One who teases or vexes.

See Teasel.

A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes.