teaberry (teber"i)

The American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, sometimes used to flavor tea and as a substitute for tea. Also mountain - tea and Canada tea. tea-board (tēʼbōrd), n. A large tray used for holding and carrying the tea-service. Shall we be christened tea - boards , varnished waiters? Wolcot (P. Pindar), Works, p. 145. ( Davies .) tea-bread (tēʻbred), n. A kind of light spongy bread or bun, sometimes slightly sweetened, to be eaten with tea. She had been busy all the morning making tea - bread Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford, i. and sponge-cakes. 6205 Who will be taught, if hee bee not mooued with desire to be taught? Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. There, in his noisy mansion skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school. Goldsmith , Des. Vil., 1. 196. 5. To impart a knowledge of; give instruction in; give le ons in; instruct or train in understanding, using, managing, handling, etc.: as, to teach mathematics or Greek. Ich am a maister to tec he the lawe; Ich am an emperour, a god felawe. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 225. We do not contemne Rewles, but we gladlie teach Ascham , The Scholemaster, p. 27. Rewles. The years teach much which the days never know. Emerson, Experience. Nowise might that minute teach him fear Who life-long had not learned to speak the name. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, III. 321. =Syn. 4. To enlighten, school, tutor, indoctrinate, initiate.-5. To impart, inculcate, instil, preach. See instruc II. in trans . To give instruction; give le ons as a preceptor or tutor; impart knowledge or tion.