subs. (old).—Urine: see COLD-TEA, LONG-TEA, and TEA-VOIDER.

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  1712.  GAY, Trivia, ii. 298. Who ’gainst the sentry’s box discharge their TEA.

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  Verb. (colloquial).—1.  To take tea: cf. ‘dine,’ ‘lunch,’ ‘sup,’ etc. (all recognised).

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends (The Lord of Thoulouse), III. 255. Unless, peradventure, you’d ‘TEA’ with your wife!

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  1839.  DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby, ix. Father don’t TEA with us.

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  2.  (common).—To engage with, encounter, go in against.

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  1896.  KIPLING, Seven Seas, ‘The Lost Legion.’

        And some share our tucker with tigers,
  And some with the gentle Masai,
                Dear boys!
  TAKE TEA WITH the giddy Masai.

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