▪ I. teind, (a.) n. Sc. and north.
(tiːnd)
Forms: 3–5 tende, tend, 4–6 teynde, 4–7 teinde, (5 tyende, teend), 5–7 teynd, (6 teand, 8–9 tiend), 4– teind. (Also 5 tene, 6 teine, 9 teen, tein.)
[Early ME. tende, adj. and n., collateral form of tenth, q.v.: cf. also tithe.]
A. adj. See tenth A. 1 γ, and 3.
B. n.
† 1. The tenth part (of anything); a tenth.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 968 (Cott.) O þi winning giue me þe tend [v.r. tende]; Of alkin fruit haf þou þe nine, For I wil þat þe tend [Fairf. teynde, Trin. tenþe] be mine. 13.. Ibid. 16968 (Gött.) All þe tunges of þis werld cuth noght tell þe tend [Cott. teind]. c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 145 Þat burgh no Citez of taliage suld non telle, Þe tende suld be nouht, no þe tuende non make. c 1375 Barbour Troy-bk. i. 475 That mene lest nocht þe teynde to here. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xii. (Mathias) 265 Of thre hundir þe teynd leyly, þat cumys be raknyne to thretty. c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 474 The teind of his iewellis to tell war full teir. c 1475 Golagros & Gaw. 1083 For ony trety may tyde, I tell the the teynd [rimes, schend, freynde, wende]. |
2. spec. A tenth part of the produce of land or labour paid (voluntarily, or by legal enactment) for the support of religion:
= tithe n. 1; now, in Scotland, that portion of the estates of the laity which is liable to be assessed for the stipend of the clergy of the established church. Now chiefly in
pl.| [c 1200 Ormin 2715 To ȝifenn Godd te tende del Off all þin aȝhenn ahhte. Ibid. 6125 Off all þatt god te birrþ þin Godd Þe tende dale brinngenn.] a 1300 Cursor M. 1062 (Cott.) Rightwis he was, and godds freind, And leli gaf he him his tend [v.r. tende]. 13.. Ibid. 27249 Quar he tas til his teindis tent. a 1340 Hampole Psalter lxxviii. 1 Þai gedire þaire tendis and offrandis, And reckis noght of þe saules þat þai sould kepe. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. ix. 1810 Teyndis or monay That wes gevin in offerand. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 168 Go byd þe preste feche þis ton of wyne for his tend. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5438 Þare was a monke þe teend ast. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 94 For to the kirk no teyndis tha wald pa. 1588 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) II. 256 note, I geue vnto my wyff the holle teand of Foulburye. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iv. (S.T.S.) 226 This escheit suld first, of the first ȝeirlie teines, be payet to the Preistes. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 28 The teinds are the Kirk's patrimonie, whereby the ministrie and the poore ought to be intertained. 1799 J. Robertson Agric. Perth 78 The livings of the ministers..are fixed by the supreme court of this country, acting as a court of teinds or tithes. 1844 W. Cross Disruption xiii. (E.D.D.), Raizin a plea against the laird for sumthing they call the teens. 1889 Chambers' Encycl. III. 528/1 The Court or Commission of Teinds, in which questions relating to the law of teinds or church tithes were decided. |
b. transf. The payment, institution or system of teinds.
| c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. II. 150 A wearisome debate on the rights of teind. 1905 Sat. Rev. 4 Feb. 14/2 Dr. Brown considers that teind was felt as an ‘iniquitous oppression’. |
c. the teind to hell (
Folk-lore), in reference to the reputed obligation of the fairies to furnish a victim to Satan every seventh year: see Scott
Minstrelsy Introd. to
Young Tamlane.
| 17.. Young Tamlane xxxvii. in Scott Minstr. Scot. Border (1869) 478 For aye, at every seven years, They pay the teind to hell. 1852 Alice Learmont ix. 124 There cam up that black road the Evil Ane,..He took back nae mortal, but an elf, as the teind to hell. |
3. attrib. and
Comb. a. attrib. Of or pertaining to teinds or tithes, as
teind-barn,
teind court,
teind day,
teind-lathe (
= tithe-barn),
teind law,
teind-master,
teind office; paid as tithe, as
teind calf,
teind coal,
teind corn,
teind fish,
teind grice,
teind hay,
teind lamb,
teind sheaf,
teind silver,
teind skate,
teind wheat.
b. objective, etc., as
teind-payer;
teind-free adj. In some of these,
teind may have been at first merely the
adj. = tenth, as
teind sheaf tenth sheaf or tithe sheaf.
| 1885 W. Ross Aberdour & Inchcolme v. 145 Conveying the teind-sheaves..to the *teind-barns at Aberdour. |
| a 1555 Lyndesay Tragedy 300 Ȝe wyll not want teind cheif nor offrandis, Teinde woll, teind lambe, *teind calf, teind gryce and guse. |
| 1475 in Finchale Priory (Surtees) 37 For *tende cole in Le wood. Ibid. 39 An accion..in the Consistory.. for tyende cole of our coal minez. |
| 1463 Burgh Rec. Edin. (1869) I. 21 The said fermoraris, sall gif..the *tene corne of all cornes of the said mylne. |
| 1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 54 Another proof that the *Teind Court are set upon paring down the income of the clergy to a mere existence. |
| 1825 Scott Jrnl. 7 Dec., *Teind day;—at home of course. |
| 1547 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 69 As to the *teynd fische of the Kirk of Kynfawnyes. |
| 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 612/2 Act declairing summes Grasse..to be *teyndfrie. |
| 1507–8 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 103 For tua ȝeris *teynd hay of ane medow that the Kingis hors eit. 1547 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 265 The teynde haye of the hall banke. |
| 1586 Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 73 Ressaving his *teynd lambis. |
| 1828 Craven Gloss., *Teen lathe, tithe-barn. |
| 1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 283 Our Scots *teind laws are founded upon this principle. |
| 1710 Dict. Feudal Law, *Teind-masters, are these who have Right to Teinds. |
| 1890 Oliver & Boyd's Edin. Almanac 91 The tables have been prepared from official documents in the *Teind Office. |
| 1685 Renwick Serm., etc. (1776) 151 Then shall *teind-payers be paid home. |
| 1446 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 125 Our landis..and the *tende schef of the sayd landis. 1876 A. Laing Lindores Abbey xiv. 133 Patrick Leslie granted a tack of the teind sheaves of the parish of Dudhope to James Scrymgeour. |
| 1505 Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. III. 171 Payit..the *teynd silvir of the Kingis staggis in tua ȝeris..xvj d. |
| 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 13 He'd sooner fling them back i' the sea Than gie ae *teind-skate to the bishop. |
| 1837 Lockhart Scott an. 1806 II. iii. 103 There is also another blank day every other week,—the *Teind Wednesday, as it is called, when the Judges are assembled for the hearing of tithe questions. |
▪ II. teind, v. Sc. and
north. ?
Obs. (
tiːnd)
Forms: see
teind n. [f. teind n.: cf. to tithe.] 1. intr. To pay teinds or tithes.
| c 1375 Creation 490 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 130 Þerfore wel to tenden buþ lef [= be glad]. 13.. Cursor M. 29324 (Cott. Galba) Þam..þat witandly with-haldes tendes Or falsly tendes. c 1460 Towneley Myst. ii. 294 If thou tend right thou gettis thi mede;..if thou teynd fals, thou bese alowed ther after als. |
2. trans. To assess or take the tenth or tithe of.
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 379/2 To Tende, decimare. 1566 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 480 To pas and teynd the cornis of the saidis toun. 1567 Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 188 The hirdis teindit all the corne. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 26 As for the wooll, it may be teended and wayed that wee may knowe what is of it. a 1722 Fountainhall Decis. (1761) 391 Herrings taken on the coast of Fife, though teinded there, yet if brought to Dunbar, pay again. |
Hence
ˈteinder, one who pays or takes teind or tithe;
ˈteinding vbl. n., tithing.
| 13.. Cursor M. 27267 [In scrift þe preist sal frain] Anentes til-men of enuie And o þair tending [v.r. teinding] namli. c 1440 Gesta Rom. vi. 17 (Harl. MS.) Þe lewde men most holde vp..men of holy chirch, thoroȝ almesse offryngys, and tendingys. 1627 in A. Allan Hist. Channelkirk (1900) 147 Quhen the ground is punishit, the heritour and teinder must nott be frie. 1655 Records Baron Crt. Stitchill (S.H.S.) 2 Until the first day of the teynding be past. 1884 J. Tait in United Presbyt. Mag. Apr. 156 The arrangement of thirders and teinders described by Arthur Young. 1905 C. B. Gunn Baron Crt. Stitchill Introd. 15 The minister might delay teinding until the weather was breaking. |
▪ III. teind obs. Sc. f. tend,
tind v.