a. [f. TEAT + -ED2.] Furnished with or having teats. Also in comb.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 90. The Lionesse is smooth and teated.
1769. Aclome Inclos. Act, 2. A customary … payment of three half-pence for every new teated cow.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xvii. The milkers formed quite a little battalion of men and maids, the men operating on the hard-teated animals.
1907. G. Massey, Anc. Egypt, I. VII. 456. The graves identify the mortuary meal, and the swine’s flesh will answer for the mother, who was imaged in one form as the many-teated sow, the flesh of which was prohibited in later ages because it was sacred and had originally represented the mother, who was at one time eaten with honour in propria persona.
