Bunyan.
Syn. — Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.
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Te"di*um (?), n. [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.]
Irksomeness; wearisomeness; tediousness. [Written also tædium.] Cowper.
To relieve the tedium, he kept plying them with all manner of bams.
Prof. Wilson.
The tedium of his office reminded him more strongly of the willing
scholar, and his thoughts were rambling.
Dickens.
Tee (?), n. [Cf. Icel. tj to show, mark.] (a) The mark aimed at in
curling and in quoits. (b) The nodule of earth from which the ball is
struck in golf.
Tee, n. A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect
a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; — so called
because it resembles the letter T in shape.
Tee" i`ron (?). See T iron, under T.