n. [ OE. tene, AS. teóna reproach, wrong, fr. teón to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell, announce, L. dicere to say. See Token. ] Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

With public toil and private teen
Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. teónian, t&unr_;nan, to slander, vex. √64. See Teen, n. ] To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Tine to shut. ] To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a teenager. [ PJC ]

n. of or pertaining to a teenager; being in one's teens; as, a busload of teenage football fans; teenage inexperience. [ PJC ]

n. The longer wood for making or mending fences. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a person whose age is in the teens, i.e. one between the ages of 13 to 19 inclusive. [ PJC ]

v. t. & i. [ See Tinder. ] To kindle; to burn. [ Obs. ] Herrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Ten. ] The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens. [ 1913 Webster ]