Category:Teen

Teen, n. Etym: [oe. tene, as. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to Accuse; akin to g. zeihen, goth. gateihan to tell, announce, l. Dicere to say. See token.]

Defn: grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [archaic] chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold.

Teen Teen, v. t. Etym: [as. teónian, t, to slander, vex. *64. See teen, N.]

Defn: to excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [obs.] Piers plowman.

Teen Teen, v. t. Etym: [see tine to shut.]

Defn: to hedge or fence in; to inclose. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.