Chapter Tarrinzeau Field to Tear of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Teague (A). An Irishman, about equal to Pat or Paddy. Sometimes we find the word Teague-lander. Teague is an Irish servant in Farquhar's Twin Rivals; in act iii. 2 we find the phrase “a downright Teague,” meaning a regular Irish character- blundering, witty, fond of whisky, and lazy. The name is also introduced in Shadwell's play, The Lancashire Witches, and Teague O'Divelly, the Irish Priest (1688).

“Was't Carwell, brother James, or Teague,
That made thee break the Triple League?”
Rochester: History of Insipids.

Teakettle Broth consists of hot water, bread, and a small lump of butter, with pepper and salt. The French soup maigre.

Tean or Teian Poet. Anacreon, who was born at Teos, in Ionia. (B.C. 563-478.)

Teanlay Night The vigil of All Souls, or last evening of October, when bonfires were lighted and revels held for succouring souls in purgatory.

Tear (to rhyme with “snare”). To tear Christ's body. To use imprecations. The common oaths of mediaeval times were by different parts of the Lord's body, hence the preachers used to talk of “tearing God's body by imprecations.”

“Her othes been so greet and so dammpnable
That it is grisly for to hiere hëm swere.
Our blisful Lordës body thay to-tere.”
Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 13,889.

Tear (to rhyme with “fear”). Tear and larme. (Anglo - Saxon, taeher; Gothic, tagr; Greek, dakru; Latin, lacrim-a; French, lar'm.)
   Tears of Eos. The dew-drops of the morning were so called by the Greeks. Eos was the mother of Memnon (q.v.), and wept for him every morning.
   St. Lawrence's tears. Falling stars. St. Lawrence was roasted to death on a gridiron, and wept that others had not the same spirit to suffer for truth's sake as he had. (See Lawrence.)