What does "teen" mean?
Teen: Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.
Additional senses
- 2.To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
- 3.To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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