ppl. a. [f. TEASE v.1 + -ED1.]

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  1.  Having the fibers pulled asunder: see TEASE v.1 1. In quot. 1620 fig. Also teased out.

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c. 1430.  Two Cookery-bks., 22. Caste þer-to tesyd brawn.

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1620.  Brinsley, trans. Virgil, 58. To sing a teased verse … a pastorall song…, drawne out small like wooll in spinning.

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1851.  Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal., p. iv**/1. This cylinder is cleaned of the teazed cotton by means of brushes.

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1875.  Huxley & Martin, Elem. Biol. (1877), 258. Treat a fresh bit of teased-out nerve with chloroform.

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  2.  Irritated or annoyed in a petty way.

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1627.  May, Lucan, III. 527. Vntill the townesmens teased valour broke … The fence.

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1852–5.  M. Arnold, Faded Leaves, River, v. This teased o’erlabour’d heart.

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