Verb

(en verb)

To be stocked to overflowing.

* Sir Walter Scott

his mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy

To be prolific; to abound.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)

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To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.

* Shakespeare

If she must teem , / Create her child of spleen.

Verb

(en verb)

(archaic) To empty.

* 1913 ,

*:“Are you sure they’re good lodgings?” she asked.

*:“Yes—yes. Only—it’s a winder when you have to pour your own tea out—an’ nobody to grouse if you team it in your saucer and sup it up. It somehow takes a’ the taste out of it.”

To pour (especially with rain)

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mould, with molten metal.

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete, rare) To think fit.