teade

English

Alternative forms

• tead

Etymology

Latin taeda, teda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːd/
• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophone: teed

Noun

teade (plural teades)

1. (obsolete) A torch.
   • 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

     A burning teade.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “teade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• e-date, eated, teaed