TEANUM APULUM  , an

ancient town of Apulia, Italy, on the road between Larinum and Sipontum, i8 m . E. of the former, at the crossing of the Fortore near the modern village of S . Paolo di Civitate . It was called Teate in earlier times, as appears from its numerous coins, which have Oscan legends . It submitted to Rome in 318 B.C., being then the chief town of Apulia . It was afterwards known as Teanum Apulum, and was a municipium . Some ruins and an old bridge over the Fortore still exist . TEA-POY (Hindustani tepai), a small table, supported upon a tripod, or even upon four legs, for holding a tea-service or an urn . The word was also sometimes applied to a large porcelain or earthenware tea-caddy, and more frequently to the small bottles, often of Battersea enamel, which fitted into receptacles in the caddy and actually contained the tea .