teamster (temster)

[ Western teamsters are renowned for their powers of continuous execration. A. Geikie, Geol. Sketches, x. Being like a team; teamwise (tēm'wiz), a . harne ed together. That his swift charet might have pa age wyde Which foure great hippodames did draw in temewise tyde. Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 40. team-work (tēm'werk), n. 1. Work done by a team of horses, oxen, etc., as distinguished from manual labor. [U. S.]-2. Work done by the players collectively in a base-ball nine, a foot-ball eleven, etc.: as, the team - work of the nine is excellent. [Colloq., U. S.] Tean, a . See Teian . Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. Т. 8.), p. 48. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a pa ion to tatters, to very rags, to IMG:content-2915.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To lacerate; wound in the surface, as by the action of teeth or of something sharp rudely dragged over it: as, to tear the skin with thorns: also used figuratively: as, a heart torn with anguish; a party or a church torn by factions. Filial ingratitude! Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand For lifting food to 't? Shak ., Lear, iii. 4. 15. 4. To drag or remove violently or rudely; pull or pluck with violence or effort; force rudely or unceremoniously; wrench; take by force: with from, down, out, off, etc. She complayneth that sometimes he speaketh so many and so greate despiteful wordes that they breake her hart, & tear ye teares out of her eyes. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 310. Must my soul be thus torn away from the things it loved, and go where it will hate to live and can never die? Stilling fleet, Sermons, I. xi. Idols of gold, from heathen temples torn . Scott , Vision of Don Roderick, The Vision, st. 31. To tear a catt, to rant; rave; bluster. I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split. Shak., M. N. D., i. 2. 32. To tear one's self away, to go off unwillingly. [Colloq.] - To tear the hair, or to tear one's beard, to pull the hair or beard in a violent or distracted manner, as a sign of grief or rage. Gods! I could tear my beard to hear you talk! Add is on , Cato, ii. 5. To tear up. (a) To remove from a fixed state by violence: as, to tear up a tree by the roots. (6) To pull to pieces or shreds; rend completely: as, to tear up a piece of paper; to tear up a sheet into strips. =Syn. 1. Rip, Split, etc. See rend1. II. in trans. 1. To part, divide, or separate on being pulled or handled with more or le violence: as, cloth that tears readily.-2. Το tear move noisily and with vigorous haste or eagerne ; move and act with turbulent violence; hence, to rave; rant; bluster; rage; rush violently or noisily: as, to tear out of the house. [Colloq.] And now two smaller Cratch its, boy and girl, came tear ing in. Dickens, Christmas Carol, iii. Aunt Lois, she's ben bilin' up no end o' doughnuts, an' tear in ' round 'nough to drive the house out o' the winders, to git everything ready for ye. H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 525. To rip and tear. See ripl.- To tear off or away, to start off suddenly. [Colloq.] tearl (tar), n. [