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Teened vs Steened - What's the difference?

teened | steened |

As verbs the difference between teened and steened

is that teened is (teen) while steened is (steen).

teened

English

Verb

(head)
  • (teen)

    • teen

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teenager, a person between 13 and 19 years old.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See (token).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Grief, sorrow; suffering.
  • *, III.5:
  • *:In which the birds song many a lovely lay / Of Gods high praise, and of their loves sweet teene , / As it an earthly Paradize had beene.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxv:
  • *:The Soldan changed hue for grief and teen , / On that sad book his shame and loss he lear'd.''
  • *
  • *:MIRANDA: O! my heart bleeds / To think o' th' teen that I have turn'd you to, / Which is from my remembrance.
  • *1866 , (Algernon Swinburne), :
  • *:Your soul forgot her joys, forgot/Her times of teen ;/Yea, this life likewise will you not/Forget
  • *1867 , (Matthew Arnold), A Southern Night :
  • *:With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone.
  • *1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night), XXI:
  • *:That City's sombre Patroness and Queen, / In bronze sublimity she gazes forth / Over her Capital of teen and threne

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See Etymology 2 above.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To excite; to provoke; to vex; to afflict; to injure.
    • (Piers Plowman)

    Etymology 4

    See tine to shut

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, obsolete, provincial) To hedge or fence in; to enclose.
    • (Halliwell)

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    steened

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (steen)

    • steen

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Spenser)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1723 , Richard Fro?t, James Young, et al., An Account of a Well near Queenborough in Kent'', John Eames, John Martyn, ''The Philosophical Transactions 1719—1733, Abridged, Volume 6, Part 2, Royal Society (Great Britain), page 244,
    • We then mea?ured the Depth of it, and found it 200 Foot, and artificially ?teened the whole Depth with circular Portland Stone, which is all entire, and ?tands fair, the mean Diameter is four Foot eight Inches;.
  • * 1764 , John Muller, A Treatise Containing the Practical Part of Fortification , 2nd Edition, page 99,
    • The compa?s bricks are of a circular form, their u?e is for ?teening of walls;.
  • * 1802 , A Society of Practical Gardeners, Rural Recreations; Or The Gardener's Instructor , London, page 182,
    • The sides and dome of the cone should be nine inches thick, and the sides ought to be constructed of steened brick-work, that is without mortar, and wrought at right angles to the face of the work: the vacancies behind may be filled with brick-bats, gravel, or loose stones, so that the water which escapes through the sides, may the more readily find its way into the reservoir.
  • * 1849 , Richard C. Neville, Remains of the Anglo-Roman Age'', ''The Archaeological Journal , Volume 6, London, page 121,
    • They[the wells] were regularly steened with flint to the depth of ten feet; they measured about four feet in diameter at the mouth: no ancient objects were found in them.

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