Definition of "unteeming"

unteeming

adjective
not comparable
1. That does not teem.
  Quotations
  What is Death / But Life in act? How should the Unteeming Grave / Be victor over thee, / Mother, a mother of men?
  1926, Henley William Ernest, Poems, page 116
  Usually, though, the light days in the water were unbiological, unteeming times.
  2016, Charles Foster, Being a Beast
2. (obsolete) Barren; infertile.

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