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[Icel. tyd =to point out, to mark, to note.] Golf, .: A mark set up in playing at quoits; the mark made in the ice in the game of curling, oward which the stones are pushed; the nodule of earth from which the ball is struck off in golf. (Scotch.) "Both got well away from the tee to the fourth hole." Field , Sept. 25, 1886. IMG:content-0866.png:[blocks in formation] "Never interrupt the court-all that is managed for ye like a tee'd ball." -Scott: Red gauntlet, letter xiii. teel, tîl, s. [Mahratta teel; Hind. & Beng. tel.] Botany: Sesamum orientale and S. indicum. [SESAME, SESAMUM.]