noun. undefined

noun. One that teases, as a device for teasing wool.

noun. One who engages in teasing; a tease.

noun. A puzzling problem.

noun. An advertisement that attracts customers by offering something extra or free.

noun. An attention-getting vignette or highlight, as one presented before the start of a television show.

noun. One who or that which teases: as, a teaser of oakum.

noun. The stoker or fireman in glassworks who attends the furnace.

noun. A dog used in hunting deer.

noun. Anything which teases, or causes trouble or annoyance.

noun. An inferior stallion or ram used to excite mares or ewes, but not allowed to serve them.

noun. A gull-teaser: a sailors' and fishermen's name of sundry predatory birds of the family Laridæ and subfamily Stercorariinæ, as a skua. Also called boatswain, marlinespike, and dung-hunter. See cuts under skua and Stercorarius.

noun. A name applied by Brush to a magnetizing coil on the field-magnets of his dynamo, the ends of which were connected to the terminals of the machine so as to form an independent circuit with the coil of the armature; the shunt coil in a compound wound dynamo.

noun. One who teases or vexes.

noun. A jager gull.

noun. A shunt winding on field magnets for maintaining their magnetism when the main circuit is open.

noun. A person or thing that teases

noun. A short film or quote meant to draw an audience to a film or show.

noun. A kind of gull, the jaeger.

noun. a device for teasing wool

noun. a worker who teases wool

noun. an advertisement that offers something free in order to arouse customers' interest

noun. a flat at each side of the stage to prevent the audience from seeing into the wings

noun. an attention-getting opening presented at the start of a television show

noun. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

noun. a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

"How he tackled this brain teaser is an interesting insight into the man at the helm of Microsoft."

cockteaser  prickteaser  

ad  advert  advertisement  advertising  advertizement  

Caesar  Ebenezer  caesar  freezer  pleaser  

18-wheeler  20-minute  Hayek  archeology  carny  

Artful Dodger  Casanova  Circe  Don Juan  Gordian knot