Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TEAR-LESS, a.

Shedding no tears; without tears; unfeeling. Sandys.

TEA-SAU-CER, n. [tea and saucer.]

A small saucer which a tea-cup is set.

TEASE, v.t. [s as z. Sax. tæsan, to pull or tear.]

1. To comb or card, as wool or flax.
2. To scratch, as cloth in dressing, for the purpose of raising a nap.
3. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery. Parents are often teased by their children into unreasonable compliances. My friends tease me about him, because he has no estate. Spectator.

TEAS-ED, pp.

1. Carded.
2. Vexed; irritated; annoyed.

TEAS-EL, n. [tee'zl; Sax. tæsl.]

1. A plant of the genus Dipsacus, one kind of which bears a large bur which is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. Hence,
2. The bur of the plant.

TEAS-EL, v.t.

To cut and gather teasels.

TEAS-EL-ER, n.

One who uses the teasel for raising a nap on cloth. Kelham.

TEAS-EL-ING, ppr.

Gathering teasels: as a noun, the cutting and gathering of teasels.

TEAS-ER, n.

One that teases or vexes.

TEAS-ING, ppr.

Combing; carding; scratching for the purpose of raising a nap; vexing with importunity.

TEA-SPOON, n. [tea and spoon.]

A small spoon used in drinking tea and coffee.

TEAT, or TIT, n. [Sax. tit, titt, as it is usually pronounced to this day; G. zitze; D. tet; W. têth; Corn. titi; Ir. did; Basque, titia; Gaelic, did; Fr. teton, breast, It. tetta; Port. and Sp. teta; Gr. τιτθος. It coincides with tooth, teeth, in elements, and radical sense, which is a shoot.]

The projecting part of the female breast; the dug of a beast; the pap of a woman; the nipple. It consists of an elastic erectile substance, embracing the lactiferous ducts, which terminate on its surface, and thus serves to convey milk to the young of animals.

TEA-TA-BLE, n. [tea and table.]

A table on which tea-furniture is set, or at which tea is drank.

TEATHE, n.

The soil or fertility left on lands by feeding them. [Local.]

TEATHE, v.t.

To feed and enrich by live stock. [Local.]

TEA-TREE, n. [tea and tree.]

The shrub or plant, Camellia Thea, that produces the leaves which are imported and called tea. It is a native of China, Japan and Tonquin, but has recently been introduced into South America. Encyc.

TECH'I-LY, adv. [from techy, so written for touchy.]

Peevishly; fretfully; frowardly.

TECH'I-NESS, n.

Peevishness; fretfulness. Bp. Hall.

TECH'NIC, or TECH'NIC-AL, a. [L. technicus; Gr. τεχνικος, from τεχνη, art, artifice, from τευχω, to fabricate, make or prepare. This word and τασσω have the same elements.]

1. Pertaining to art or the arts. A technical word is a word that belongs properly or exclusively to an art; as, the verb to smelt, belongs to metallurgy. So we say, technical phrases, technical language. Every artificer has his technical terms.
2. Belonging to a particular profession; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone, Index. It is of the utmost importance clearly to understand the technical terms used by the eastern theologians. Prof. Lee.

TECH'NIC-AL-LY, adv.

In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms of art or the professions.

TECH'NIC-AL-NESS, or TECH-NIC-AL'I-TY, n.

The quality or state of being technical or peculiar to the arts. Forster.

TECH'NICS, n.

The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

TECH-NO-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Technology.]

1. Pertaining to technology. Beddoes. Tooke.
2. Pertaining to the arts; as, technological institutes. Journ. of Science.

TECH-NOL'O-GIST, n.

One who discourses or treats of arts, or of the terms of art.

TECH-NOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. τεχνη, art, and λογος, word or discourse.]

1. A description of arts; or a treatise on the arts.
2. An explanation of the terms of the arts. Crabbe.