team, teem, tee me, tem, teme

[A. S. team a family, offspring; cogn. with Dut. toom = the rein of a bridle; Icel. taumr; Low Ger. toom = progeny, a team, a rein; Dan. tom me: Sw. tom =a rein; M. H. Ger. zoum; German zaum-a bridle.] [TEEM (1), v.] *1. Race, progeny. "This child is come of gentille teте." Torrent of Portugal, p. 81. 2. A flock or group of young animals, especially young ducks; a brood, a litter. "Ready to pre the trigger the instant the first skein of geese or team of ducks comes in sight."- St . James's Gazette, Dec. 18, 1885. 3. A number of animals moving together or pa ing in a line. "Like a long team of snowy swans on high, Which clap their wings, and cleave the liquid sky." Dryden. (Todd.) 4. Two or more horses, oxen, or other animals harne ed together for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sleigh, plow, or the like. "As when two teams of mules divide the green." Pope: Homer's Iliad, x. 420. 5. A number of persons a ociated, as for the per form ance of a definite piece of work, or forming one of the parties or sides in a game, match, or the like. "The football season in the North and Midlands is in full swing, and it is therefore little matter for wonder that the country teams bear away the laurels every year from the metropolis."-London Echo.