teasing, a [Tease

] Vexing, worrying, irritating. "Surmounted the teasing employments of printing and publishing."- Goldsmith : Polite Learning , ch. x. těat (1), s . [Etym. doubtful; cf. tit .] A small quantity. ( Scotch .) ( Burns : Poor Mailie .) teat (2), *teet, *tete, *tette, *tit, *titte, s . [A. S. tit ; cogn. with O. Dut. titte ; Ger. zitze ; Fr. tette ; O. Fr. tete ; Sp, tet a ; Ital. tetta ; Icel. táta ; Wel. did, did i, teth ; Irish & Gael. did .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: The projecting organ through which milk is drawn from the breast or udder of females of the cla mammal i a; the nipple; the dug of a beast; the pap of a woman. "The divine providence hath furnished a woman with two teats for this purpose." P. Holland: Plutarch, p. 4. 2. Fig .: A small nozzle resembling a teat. II. Mech .: A small, rounded, perforated projection, otherwise called a nipple, as that of a gun. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, teated