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Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

The longer wood for making or mending fences. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To kindle; to burn. [Obs.] Herrick.

Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine..]

Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.

See Octodecimo.

Next in order after the seventeenth.

Five and ten; one more than fourteen.

Next in order after the fourteenth; -- the ordinal of fifteen.

The sum of ten and four; forteen units or objects.

Next in order after the thirteenth; as, the fourteenth day of the month.

the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below. Lateen sail. Etym: [F. voile latine a sail in the shape of a right- angled triangle; cf. It. & Sp. vela latina; properly Latin sail. See Latin.] (Naut.) A triangular sail, extended by a long yard, which is slung at about one fourth…

he East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.

ecially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irish peasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]