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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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193 words match “TEEM”

TEEM v. 6 definitions

To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Swift.

One who teems, or brings forth.

TEEMFUL a. 2 definitions

Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]

Prolific; productive. Teeming buds and cheerful appear. Dryden.

Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth. [Poetic] Dryden.

BETEEM v. 2 definitions

To allow; to permit; to suffer. [Obs.] So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Shak.

COMMITTEEMAN n.

A member of a committee.

DISESTEEM n. 3 definitions

Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.

One who disesteems. Boyle.

ESTEEM v. 5 definitions

of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence. Bp. Gardiner. Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly l…

Worthy of esteem; estimable. [R.] "Esteemable qualities." Pope.

One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. The proudest esteemer of his own parts. Locke.

Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.

The holding a good opinion of one's self; self-complacency.

STEEM n. 2 definitions

See Esteem. [Obs.] Spenser.

STEM; STEEM v. 2 definitions

To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.

ACCOUNT n. 2 definitions

are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in estimation; to esteem; as, he makes small account of beauty. -- To take account of, or to take into account, to take into consideration; to notice. "Of their doings, God takes no account." Milton . -- A writ of account (Law), a writ which the pl…

ok upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper.

Homage paid to one in high esteem; profound veneration; intense regard and love; fervent devotion.