In a message dated 8/23/2009 11:16:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: teem 1 |tēm|verb [ intrans. ] ( teem with)be full of or swarming with : every garden is teeming with wildlife | [as adj. ] ( teeming) she walked briskly through the teeming streets.ORIGIN Old English tēman, tīeman, of Germanic origin; related to team . The original senses included [give birth to,] also [be or become pregnant,] giving rise to [be full of] in the late 16th cent.
teem 2 |tim| |tiːm|verb [ intrans. ](of water, esp. rain) pour down; fall heavily : with the rain teeming down at the manor, Italy seemed a long way off.ORIGIN Middle English : from Old Norse tœma ‘to empty,’ from tómr ‘empty.’ The original sense was ‘to empty,’ specifically [to drain liquid from, pour liquid out] ; the current sense (originally dialect) dates from the early 19th cent. ========== Thanks, Joe. Guess my ant hill imagery was darn close. Of course, I COULD have looked it up myself, but what would be the fun in that? Marnie ;-) Besides my dictionary isn't as good as the one above. --------------------------------------------- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
