tec (tek)

[An abbr. of detective. ] A detective. [Thieves' slang.] They [Bow Street runners] are now, I believe, among thieves and other slang-talkers tecs . IMG:content-2918.png:[blocks in formation] C. F. G. Cumming , in The Century, XXVII. 920. African tea-tree. See Lycium. - Bottle-green teatree, an evergreen myrtaceous shrub, Kunzea corifolia , of Australia and Tasmania. - Broad-leaved tea-tree, a myrtaceous shrub or tree, Callistemon salignus , of Australia and Tasmania. Its wood is very close-grained, hard and heavy. - Ceylon tea-tree, Elæodendron glau cum.-Duke of Argyll's tea-tree. See Lycium . Prickly tea-tree. Same as naambarr . - Red scrub teatree, the Australian Rhodamnia trinervia , a myrtaceous tea-tree, Melaleuca squarrosa , of Australia and Tasmania, shrub or tree. Also called three - veined myrtle. - Swamp a shrub, or sometimes a tree, with hard heavy wood, the bark in thin layers. M. armil laris is also so called in Tasmania.-Tasmanian tea-tree. See def. 2. - White teatree, Leptospermum ericoides, of New Zealand, a shrub, or a tree 40 or 50 feet high. The wood is hard and dense. tea-urn (te'ern), n. A ve el used on the tea table for boiling water or keeping water hot: it differs from the tea-kettle chiefly in having a faucet or cock instead of a spout, so that it has not to be moved or tipped for drawing hot water. nished with teats, except in the nipple le monotremes. Teats are generally single, one for each gland, but may be several, as the four of a cow's compound udder. 2. Hence, the mammary gland; the breast; the udder.-3. Something resembling a teat, as a nozle. Teat drill. See drill1.