=Teazle= (_Sir Peter_), a man who, in old age, married a country girl who proved extravagant, fond of pleasure, selfish and vain. Sir Peter was for ever nagging at her for her inferior birth and rustic ways, but secretly loving her and admiring her _naïveté_. He says to Rowley, “I am the sweetest-tempered man alive, and hate a teasing temper, and so I tell her ladyship a hundred times a day.” _Lady Teazle_, a lively, innocent, country maiden, who married Sir Peter, old enough to be her grandfather. Planted in London in the whirl of the season, she formed a liaison with Joseph Surface, but, being saved from disgrace, repented and reformed.--R. B. Sheridan, _School for Scandal_ (1777). =Teeth.= Rigord, an historian of the thirteenth century, tells that when Chosroës, the Persian, carried away the true cross discovered by St. Helĕna, the number of teeth in the human race was reduced. Before that time, Christians were furnished with thirty, and in some cases with thirty-two teeth, but since then no human being has had more than twenty-three teeth.--See _Historiens de France_, xviii. ⁂ The normal number of teeth is thirty-two still. This “historic fact” is of a piece with that which ascribes to woman one more rib than to man. =Teetotal.= The origin of this word is ascribed to Richard (_Dicky_) Turner, who, in addressing a temperance meeting in September, 1833, reduplicated the word _total_ to give it emphasis: “We not only want _total_ abstinence, we want more, we want t-total abstinence.” The novelty and force of the expression took the meeting by storm. It is not correct to ascribe the word to Mr. Swindlehurst, of Preston, who is erroneously said to have stuttered. =Te´ian Muse=, Anacreon, born at Teïos, in Ionia, and called by Ovid (_Tristia_, ii. 364) Teïa Musa (B.C. 563-478). The Scian and the Teian Muse ... [_Simonidês and Anacreon_] Have found the fame your shores refuse. Byron, _Don Juan_, iii. 86 (“The Isles of Greece,” 1820). ⁂ Probably Byron meant Simonidês of Ceos. Horace (_Carmĭna_, ii. 1, 38) speaks of “Ceæ munera neniæ,” meaning Simonidês; but Scios, or Scio, properly means Chios, one of the seven places which laid claim to Homer. Both Ceos and Chios, are isles of Greece. =Tei´lo= (_St._), a Welsh saint, who took an active part against the Pelagian heresy. When he died, three cities contended for his body, but happily the strife was ended by the multiplication of the dead body into three St. Teilos. Capgrave insists that the _ipsissime_ body was possessed by Llandaff.--_English Martyrology._ =Teirtu’s Harp=, which played of itself, merely by being asked to do so, and when desired to cease playing, did so.--_The Mabinogion_ (“Kilhwch and Olwen,” twelfth century). St. Dunstan’s harp discoursed most enchanting music without being struck by any player.