teind
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Scots teind (“tenth”), from Middle English tende, variant of tenthe (“tenth”); see that entry for more.
Noun
editteind (plural teinds)
- (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
editteind (third-person singular simple present teinds, present participle teinding, simple past and past participle teinded)
- (Scotland, transitive) To tithe.
References
edit- “teind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editAdjective
editteind
- Alternative form of tenthe
Noun
editteind
- Alternative form of tenthe
Scots
editEtymology
editInherited from Middle English tenthe.
Noun
editteind (plural teinds)
References
edit- “teind, n.1, v.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
- “tend, adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
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