teind

English

Alternative forms

• tiend

Etymology

From Scots teind (“tenth”), from Middle English tende, variant of tenthe (“tenth”); see that entry for more.

Noun

teind (plural teinds)

1. (Scotland) A tithe.
   • 1731, Alexander Baine, Notes, for the Use of the Students of the Municipal Law in:

     That in the cale where the Teind was set separately from the Stock, the Duty was commonly far above the true Value of what was paid for the Teind

   • 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 195:

     What have I been paying stipend and teind parsonage and vicarage for, ever sin' the aughty-nine, an' I canna get a spell of a prayer for't, the only time I ever asked for ane in my life?

Verb

teind (third-person singular simple present teinds, present participle teinding, simple past and past participle teinded)

1. (Scotland, transitive) To tithe.

References

• “teind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• denti-, detin, ident, indet., tiend, tined

Middle English

Adjective

teind

1. Alternative form of tenthe

Noun

teind

1. Alternative form of tenthe