teen

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
teen
    adj 1: being of the age 13 through 19; "teenage mothers"; "the
           teen years" [syn: {adolescent}, {teen}, {teenage},
           {teenaged}]
    n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn:
         {adolescent}, {stripling}, {teenager}, {teen}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Teen \Teen\, v. t. [AS. te['o]nian, t?nan, to slander, vex.
   [root]64. See {Teen}, n.]
   To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.]
   --Piers Plowman.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Teen \Teen\, v. t. [See {Tine} to shut.]
   To hedge or fence in; to inclose. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Teen \Teen\, n.
   a {teenager}.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Teen \Teen\, n. [OE. tene, AS. te['o]na reproach, wrong, fr.
   te['o]n to accuse; akin to G. zeihen, Goth. gateihan to tell,
   announce, L. dicere to say. See {Token}.]
   Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Spenser.
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         With public toil and private teen
         Thou sank'st alone.                      --M. Arnold.
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