tealeaf (telef)

1. The leaf of the tea-plant. -2. pl. Tea that has been soaked or infused. An extensive trade, but le extensive, I am informed, than it was a few years ago, is carried on in tea - leaves, or in the leaves of the herb after their having been subjected Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 149. in the usual way to decoction. For them a team of four bays [will have become] as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Be . Thackeray, Vanity Fair, vii. If he [the traveler] desires amusement, he may hire a team , and observe life from a buggy in Central Park. Corn hill Mag., N. S., No. 64, p. 373. 6. A number of persons a ociated, as for the performance of a definite piece of work, or forming one of the parties or sides in a game, match, or the like: as, a team of foot-ball or base-ball players. [Colloq.] Hear me, my little teem of villains, hear me. Mas singer , Virgin-Martyr, iv. 7. In Eng. universities, the pupils of a coach, or private tutor. [Slang.] A mathematical tutor can drive a much larger team than a cla ical; the latter cannot well have more than three men construing to him at a time. service, having three or four legs. Kate and I took much pleasure in choosing our tea - poys ; hers had a mandarin parading on the top, and mine a flight of birds and a pagoda. S. O. Jewett , Deep haven, p. 84. tearl (tar), v.; pret. tore (formerly tare ), pp. torn, ppr. tearing. [ teren , teeren (pret. tar , pp. toren ), teran (pret. tær , pp. toren ), rend, tear, = OS. far - terian , destroy, = D. teren = MLG. teren , consume, = OHG. firzeran , loose, destroy, tear, MHG. zern (ver-zern), G. zehren, misuse, consume, = Icel. tæra = Sw. tära = Dan. tære , consume, = Goth. ga - tairan , break, destroy, = Gr. δέρειν , flay (see derm , etc.), = OBulg. der a , tear.] I. trans. 1. To rend; pull apart or in pieces; make a rent or rents in: as, to tear one's clothes; to tear up a letter. We schulen foonde euery-choon, Alle to-gidere, bot he hool [whole] & some, To teer him from the top to the toon [toes]. IMG:content-2914.png:[graphic] son from whom they were received, by requiring such a holder to vouch to warranty. See vouch.-Jersey team. Same as Jersey mates (which see, under matel ). team (tēm), v. [Early mod. E. also teem; By this the Night forth from the darksome bowre Of Here bus her teemed steedes gan call. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 314. The horses [in a horse-artillery battery] are teamed in pairs-lead, centre, and wheel - the drivers mounted on the near horses. Encyc. Brit ., II. 663. 2. To work, convey, haul, or the like with a team. Imp. Dict.-3. In contractors' work, to give out (portions of the work) to a gang or team under a subcontractor. [Colloq.] II. in trans. To do work with a team. teaming (tēʼming), n. 1. The act of hauling earth, goods, etc., with a team. - 2. In contractors' work, a certain mode of doing the work which is given out to a "bo ," who hires a gang or team to do it, and is responsible to the owner of the stock. E. H. Knight. team-shovel (tēm's huv"l), n. An earth-scraper, or scoop for moving earth, drawn by horses or oxen, and having handles by which it is guided. See cut under scraper. E. H. Knight.