Teen (?), n. [OE. tene, AS. teona reproach, wrong, fr. teon to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token.]
Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain.
[Archaic]
Chaucer. Spenser.
With public toil and private teen
Thou sank'st alone.
M. Arnold.
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Teen, v. t. [AS. teonian, tnan, to slander, vex. 64. See Teen, n.]
To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure.
[Obs.]
Piers Plowman.
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Teen, v. t. [See Tine to shut.]
To hedge or fence in; to inclose.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
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