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To trim. [Obs.] Chaucer. To pick at, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance. -- To pick a bone with. See under Bone. -- To pick a thank, to curry favor. [Obs.] Robynson (More's Utopia). -- To pick off. (a) To pluck; to remove by picking. (b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy…

Fig.: To vex; to tease; to harass. She will plague the man that loves her most. Spenser.

To importune; to press with solicitation; to tease. To push down, to overthrow by pushing or impulse.

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]

e pods. See Illust. of Silicle. -- Shepherd's rod, or Shepherd's staff (Bot.), the small teasel.

To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of reach; to tease; to torment. Thy vain desires, at strife Within themselves, have tantalized thy life. Dryden.

A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.

The teasel. [Obs.]

See Teasel.

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Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

ed States from Canada. -- Cotton thistle, Onopordon Acanthium. -- Fuller's thistle, the teasel. -- Globe thistle, Melon thistle, etc. See under Globe, Melon, etc. -- Pine thistle, Atractylis gummifera, a native of the Mediterranean region. A vicid gum resin flows from the involucre. -- Scotch thistle, either the c…

To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances. [Colloq.]

To tease, or comb, as wool. [Obs.or Prov. Eng.]

Soft, like wool that has been teased. -- To"zi*ness, n.

To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.

pecies, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. Venus's basin (Bot.), the wild teasel; - - so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath. -- Venus's basket (Zoöl.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexa…

e provocations; to irritate; to plague; to torment; to harass; to afflict; to trouble; to tease. "I will not vex your souls." Shak. Then thousand torments vex my heart. Prior.