arch. Forms: 1–3 téona, (1 téon, teane), 1–5 teone, (3 tuone, toune, tone), 4 (Ayenb.) tyene, 3–6 tene, (4 tean), 4–5 ten, 4–5 (6 Sc.) teyn(e, 4–7 teene, (5 tyune, tuene), 6 Sc. teine, 6–9 Sc. tein, 6– teen. [OE. téona masc. hurt, trouble = OFris. tiona, tinna injury, OS. tiono wrong, injury; also OE. téon neut. = ON. tjón neut. and fem. damage, loss. Cf. OFris. tiona, tiuna vb. to injure: see TEEN v.1]
† 1. Harm inflicted or suffered; injury, hurt, mischief; damage. Obs.
971. Blickl. Hom., 51. Æt þæm ytmestan dæʓe eal hit him wyrþ to teonan.
c. 975. Rushw. Gosp., Matt. xx. 13. Freond, ne do ic ðe teane.
c. 1000. Ags. Gosp., ibid. Eala þu freond, ne do ic þe nænne teonan.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 15. Ne do he þe neure swa muchelne teone.
c. 1205. Lay., 6013. While he dude us tuone [c. 1275 teone].
a. 1300. Cursor M., 7980 (Cott.). His fas philistiens, Þat had don him mani tenis [v.r. -es].
c. 1400. Rule St. Benet, 978. It be-houes folk of religioun Suffer tenes & tribulacioun.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. xii. 18. Gainst that proud Paynim king that works her teene.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XXXI. i. 399. Working much teene and losse.
2. Irritation, vexation, annoyance; anger, wrath, rage; spite, ill-will, malice. Obs. exc. Sc.
c. 1200. Ormin, 19606. & forrþi let he takenn himm To wrekenn hise tene.
1340. Ayenb., 66. Þe dyeuel beginþ þet uer of tyene and euel wyl uor to becleppe.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. VIII. 100. Pers for puire teone pollede hit a-sonder.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 2248. Neuere was ther no word hem bitwene Of Ialousie or any oother tene.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1978. Lest the tyrand in his tene hade turnyt hym to sle.
c. 1500. Lancelot, 3237. So hard o knycht he strykith in his ten.
1613–6. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. iv. Before a tempest’s rough regardlesse teene.
1690. W. Walker, Idiomat. Anglo-Lat., 534. I will wreak my teen on them.
1719. Ramsay, 2nd Answ. to Hamilton, xi. Pegh, fry, and girn, wi’ spite and teen.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 37. He waxed wud wi’ vera teen.
† b. transf. Something vexatious, a cause of annoyance; a trouble. Obs.
971. Blickl. Hom., 47. Þis weorc biþ deoflum se mæsta teona.
c. 1275. Lay., 10087. Ac he ne lifuede noht longe; þat was mochel teone [c. 1205 Þat wes his leodene hærm].
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 1008. For to telle þerof hit me tene were.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), IV. ix. 172. The fooll child is wrathe & tene of his fader, and sorowe of his moder.
3. Affliction, trouble, suffering, grief, woe. arch.
c. 1290. Beket, 1533, in S. Eng. Leg., I. 150. Ȝwane a man is In mest soruwe and teone, Þanne is ore louerdes grace next.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 10472. Vp sco ras and yod a-wai, And went hir þeþen in tene and trei.
13[?]. in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866), 224. Teone and trauail shal beo my lif.
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. i. (Skeat), l. 13. Mirth is chaunged in to tene.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XIV. 7. Abraam for al hus good hadde muche teene, In gret pouerte he was yput.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., iii. 533. With tray and with teyn and dreed mekill wogh.
1556. Lauder, Tractate, 488. Syne turne ȝour myrth and loye in teine.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., IV. i. 97. Each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene.
c. 1620. Verses Death R. W., in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 103. Such is the verse compos’d in mournefull teene.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), IV. 268. And bloody Knife did end the Smart, Which she sustained in woful Teen.
1801. Wordsw., Cuckoo & Night., xxxviii. The God of Love afflict thee with all teen.
1885–94. R. Bridges, Eros & Psyche, Aug. xxi. The wan face spent with tears and teen.
b. Trouble or pains taken about something. arch.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. VI. 135. Ȝe wasten þat men wynnen with trauaille and with tene.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, II. i. 70. Contemplacion in greet tynn & with greet labour is gettyn.
1600. Tourneur, Transf. Metamorph., lxxvi. Much teen they bide in search for such an one.
1880. Contemp. Rev., March, 428. Art’s high toil and teen.
† c. Pain, physical suffering. Obs.
c. 1400. Song Roland, 632. He shall tell in the town, who the tale heris, That it is correct, for tean of his eyres.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 133. For hunger I [Chichevache] feele so grete teene.
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.), I. 224. Lazarre … Lyeth sicke … And suffereth moche teene.
† 4. Name of a disease of hawks. Obs.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, B vj b. A medicine for an hawke that hath the teyne. An hawke that hath the teyne … will pante more for oon batyng then an other for iiii.
1678. Phillips (ed. 4), Teine, a disease in Hawks that makes them pant,… growing heavy, and losing her breath when she flies.
† 5. Phr. To take teen, ? to take heed.
Perhaps a different word. (But not an error for tent.)
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl., vi. 734. Her hand roted, as you have seene, Wherby you may take good teene, That unbeleefe is a foule synne.
