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   Teem , v. t. [Icel. tæma to empty, from tōmr empty; akin to Dan. tömme to empty, Sw. tömma. See Toom to empty.]
   To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
   Swift.
   
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   (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
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   Teem, v. t. [See Tame, a., and cf. Beteem.] To think fit. [Obs. or R.]
   G. Gifford.
   
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   Teem, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Teemed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Teeming.] [OE. temen, AS. tēman, tman, from teám. See Team.]
   To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
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   If she must teem,
   Create her child of spleen.
   Shak.
   
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   To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
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   His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time.
   F. Harrison.
   
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   Teem, v. t. To produce; to bring forth. [R.]
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   That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker;
   Each minute teems a new one.
   Shak.
   
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