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teemful, a.1|ˈtiːmfʊl|
[app. f. teem v.1 + -ful: cf. forgetful. OE. had téamfull, f. team n., in the same sense.]
Prolific, productive, fruitful, teeming. Hence ˈteemfulness, prolificness.
[a1000Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 238/3 Fetose, tudderfulle, teamfulle, uel tuddre. c1000Lambeth Ps. cxliii. 13 Sceap heora teamfulle & berende.] 1755Johnson, Teemful, pregnant, prolifick. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 34 As standing corn To teemful tilths,—so thou all grace to thine. Ibid. 47 But do thou, if teemfulness Our flock shall have recruited, be of gold. 1863G. H. Calvert Gentlem. vi. 79 Exhilarated by hope,—which is the teemful mother of the ideal. |