teen
teen is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold called?
- What is to excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman called?
- What is to hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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