Defn: Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity,
slowness, or the like; wearisome.
— Te"di*ous*ly, adv.
— Te"di*ous*ness, n.
I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak.
I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan.
Syn.
— Wearisome; fatiguing. See Irksome.
TEDIUM Te"di*um, n. Etym: [L. taedium, fr. taedet it disgusts, it wearies one.]
Defn: 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 Tee, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. tja 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
Tee, n.
Defn: 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.
TEEING GROUND
Teeing ground. (Golf)
Defn: The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole.
TEE IRON
Tee" i`ron.