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Definition of Teaspoonful
1. Noun. As much as a teaspoon will hold.
Definition of Teaspoonful
1. n. As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
Definition of Teaspoonful
1. Noun. A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5ml. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teaspoonful
1. [n -SPOONFULS or -SPOONSFUL]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teaspoonful
Literary usage of Teaspoonful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery by Marion Harland (1871)
"Eat hot with sweet sauce. 0 FRUIT VALISE PUDDING. 1 quart flour. 1 tablespoonful
lard, and same of butter. 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water. ..."
2. Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery by Marion Harland (1874)
"1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in boiling water. ... 1 quart flour. 1 tablespoonful
lard, and same of butter. 1 teaspoonful soda dissolved in hot water. ..."
3. The Artizans' Guide and Everybody's Assistant: Containing Over Three by Richard Moore (1873)
"The whites of 3 eggs beaten to a froth, 1 cup of pulverized white sugar, j cup
of sweet milk, one tea- spoonful of cream of tartar, i teaspoonful of soda, ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"To illustrate the manner in which the new bottle acts, in comparison with ordinary
ones, it may be mentioned that not more than a teaspoonful would conic ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... than a teaspoonful would come out in the same time that an ordinary vial would
take to discharge its entire contents. A person being about to take a ..."
6. Annual Report by State Entomologist of Indiana (1910)
"The addition of an even teaspoonful of tartaric acid to each fifteen or twenty
pounds of sugar used will help prevent the granulation of the syrup in the ..."
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