tease (tez)

[Formerly also teaze, teize; tease, v.] 1. The act of teasing, or the state of being teased.-2. One who or that which teases; a plague. [Colloq.] - To be upon the tease, to be uneasy or fidgety. Mrs. Sago . So not a Word to me; are these his Vows? (In an uneasy Air.) L. Lucy. There's one upon the Teize already. (Aside.) Mrs. Cent livre, Ba et-Table, iii. teasel, n. and v. See teazel . teaseler, n. See teazeler. teaser (te'zer), n. [Formerly also teazer ; tease +-er1.] 1. One who or that which teases: as, a teaser of oakum.-2. The stoker or fireman in gla works who attends the furnace.-31. A Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 822. dog used in hunting deer. IMG:content-2917.png:[blocks in formation] teaser 4. Anything which teases, or causes trouble or annoyance. [Colloq.] The third [fence] is a teaser -an ugly black bullfinch with a ditch on the landing side. Lawrence, Guy Living stone, ix. 5. An inferior stallion or ram used to excite mares inferior to allow used to theite -6. A gull-teaser: a sailors' and fishermen's name of sundry predatory birds of the family Laridæ and subfamily Stercorariinæ, as a skua. Also called boatswain, marlinespike, and dung hunter. See cuts under skua and Stercorarius. -7. A name applied by Brush to a magnetiz ing coil on the field-magnets of his dynamo, minals of the machine so as to form an independent circuit with the coil of the armature; the shunt coil in a compound wound dynamo. S. P. Thompson, Dynamo-Elect. Mach., p. 98. tea-service (tē'servis), n. The articles, taken collectively, used in serving tea. the ends of which were connected to the ter