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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Teem \Teem\, verb (used with an object) [Icel. t[ae]ma to empty, from t[=o]mr empty; akin to Dan. t["o]mme to empty, Sw. t["o]mma. See {Toom} to empty.]
1. To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Swift.
2. (Steel Manuf.) To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Teem \Teem\, verb (used with an object) [See {Tame}, adjective, and cf. {Beteem}.] To think fit. [Obs. or R.] --G. Gifford.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Teem \Teem\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Teemed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Teeming}.] [OE. temen, AS. t[=e]man, t?man, from te['a]m. See {Team}.]
1. To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply.
If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. --Shak.
2. To be full, or ready to bring forth; to be stocked to overflowing; to be prolific; to abound.
His mind teeming with schemes of future deceit to cover former villainy. --Sir W. Scott.
The young, brimful of the hopes and feeling which teem in our time. --F. Harrison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Teem \Teem\, verb (used with an object) To produce; to bring forth. [R.]
That [grief] of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; Each minute teems a new one. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
teem
verb
1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: {pullulate}, {swarm}]
2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: {pour}, {swarm}, {stream}, {pullulate}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "teem": abound, abound with, be alive with, be fruitful, be productive, beget, bespread, bristle, bristle with, burst with, bustle, clutter, cram, crawl, crawl with, creep with, crowd, diffuse, drench, engender, extend throughout, exuberate, fill, flood, flow, fructify, gush, honeycomb, imbue, jam, know no bounds, lash, leave no void, leaven, luxuriate, multiply, occupy, overabound, overbrim, overflow, overflow with, overgrow, overrun, overspill, overspread, overswarm, pack, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pour, proliferate, pullulate, pullulate with, rain, reproduce, run over, run riot, run through, shower, spill over, stream, suffuse, superabound, swarm, swarm with, teem with, throng with, transfuse
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