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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

To scratch, as cloth in dressing, for the purpose of raising a nap.

To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery. Parents are often teased by their — children into unreasonable compliances. My friends tease me about him, because he has no estate.