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To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

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.

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

ure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap. Halliwell.

To vex; to tease; to trouble. [Scot.]

for cooling a gun in action and clearing away particles of powder, etc. Farrow. -- Fire teaser, in England, the fireman of a steam emgine. -- Fire water, ardent spirits; -- so called by the American Indians. -- Fire worship, the worship of fire, which prevails chiefly in Persia, among the followers of Zoroaster, ca…

To tease; to irritate; to vex. Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Ps. xxxvii. 1.

lis), formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed (Bot.), the teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) whose burs are used by fullers in dressing cloth. See Teasel.

A rotatory cylinder, covered with wire teeth or teasels, for teaseling woolen cloth. Gig machine, Gigging machine, Gig mill, or Napping machine. See Gig, 4. -- Gig saw. See Jig saw.

To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. [Obs.] Locke.

To tease; to worry; to torment. [Colloq.]

To treat with insolence; to threaten; to bully; hence, to torment by words; to tease; to taunt; to worry or irritate by bullying. Dryden.

o press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift.

To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate; to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. Dismiss the man, nor irritate the god: Prevent the rage of him who reigns above. Pope.

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] "She never nagged." J. Ingelow.

side. Dryden. To peck at, to attack with petty and repeated blows; to carp at; to nag; to tease.