Chiefly north. Eng. and Sc. Obs. Forms: 4–5 teyn(e, 4–6 tene, 6 teene, 7 teen, [app. f. TEEN sb.1)
1. Angry, vexed, enraged.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1808. Entyses hym to be tene, telles [MS. telled] vp his wrake; Ande clannes is his comfort, and coyntyse he louyes.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxviii. (Margaret), 542. Þane wes þe tyrand vondir tene Quhene he hard pis of þe maydine clene.
c. 1400. Melayne, 710. Kyng Charls … At the byschoppe was so tene.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. 202. He wox sa tene, that he gart drown this woman.
1570. Satir. Poems Reform., xxi. 53. It suld ȝow mufe all to be tene.
1674. Ray, N. C. Words, 47. Teen, angry.
1828. Craven Gloss., Teen, angry.
2. Vexatious; troublesome, distressing.
c. 1470. Golagros & Gaw., 33. With outin beilding of blis, of bern or of byre; Bot torris and tene wais, teirfull quha tellis.
¶ 3. ? Corruption of keen. rare.
1579. Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 34. The freshest colours soonest fade, the teenest Rasor soonest tourneth his edge. Ibid. (1580), 249. Selling a teene edge, wher thou desirest to haue a sharp poynt. [So edd. 1580–87; edd. 1595– keenest, keen.]
