TEEMv.i.
1. To bring forth, as young.
If she must teem,
Create her child of spleen--
2. To be pregnant; to conceive; to engender young.
Teeming buds and cheerful greens appear.
3. To be full; to be charged; as a breeding animal; to be prolific. Every head teems with politics.
4. To bring forth; to produce, particularly in abundance. The earth teems with fruits; the sea teems with fishes.
TEEMv.t.
To produce; to bring forth.
What's the newest grief?
Each minute teems a new one.
[This transitive sense is not common.]
1. To pour. [Not in use.]