Definition of tea

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Tea (n.) A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage..

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Steam Engine :: Steamboating (n.) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards..
Feed :: Feed (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
Edify :: Edify (v. i.) To teach or persuade.
Vacuum :: Vacuum (n.) The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch..
Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A small armed vessel, usually a steamer, in the revenue marine service; -- also called revenue cutter..
Torment :: Torment (v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances..
Yaupon :: Yaupon (n.) A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea..
Vice :: Vice (prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned..
Moral :: Moral (a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales..
Truck :: Truck (n.) The practice of paying wages in goods instead of money; -- called also truck system.
Potpie :: Potpie (n.) A meat pie which is boiled instead of being baked.
Curiologic :: Curiologic (a.) Pertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol..
Teat :: Teat (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.
Hypallage :: Hypallage (n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, dare classibus austros, to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds..
Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits..
Outgoing :: Outgoing (a.) Going out; departing; as, the outgoing administration; an outgoing steamer..
Team :: Team (n.) A flock of wild ducks.
Grampus :: Grampus (n.) A toothed delphinoid cetacean, of the genus Grampus, esp. G. griseus of Europe and America, which is valued for its oil. It grows to be fifteen to twenty feet long; its color is gray with white streaks. Called also cowfish. The California grampus is G. Stearnsii..
Aeolipyle :: Aeolipyle (n.) An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve..
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