teind
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Scots teind (“tenth”), from Middle English tende, variant of tenthe (“tenth”); see that entry for more.
Noun edit
teind (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 edit
teind (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 edit
Middle English edit
Adjective edit
teind
- Alternative form of tenthe
Noun edit
teind
- Alternative form of tenthe