† umboth Orkney and Shetland. Obs.
Also 6 umbuth, umbo, umbuss, -bois, 9 umbith.
[a. ON. umboð (Norw. umbod, Sw. and Da. ombud) agency, office, f. um- um- + boð command, etc.]
1. Agency, procuratory, part (in affairs).
| 1509 Earldom of Orkney (S.H.S.) 84 Schir Nycol Haucru,..persone of Orphare, in his said fadaris umbuth. 1510 in Scottish Jrnl. Topog. etc. II. 88 Sir Vilȝem Sinclar..sueand for Justice Rychert Sinclar, in ye umbuss of Jhone Adesone one ye tayne part, and Vilȝam flet in h[i]s awyne umbuss on ye tother part. |
2. (See quots. a 1688 and 1733.) Also umboth duty, umboth tithe.
| 1577 Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 648 To pay the Bischoppis dewitie callit the bischoppis umbois in Zeitland, quhilk he hes in tak and assedatioun. a 1688 J. Wallace Descr. Orkney (1693) 94 Umboth, the great Tiend of either half of the Parish: so called because every other year it was changed with the Minister for his half: for the word Umboth signifieth time about. 1733 T. Gifford Descr. Zetland Islands (1886) 56 That rent called Umboth duty, that is the bishop's rents of Zetland, for which..the bishop has the equivalent rent in Orkney. Ibid. The Umboth tythes are for the most part a rental tythe. a 1800 MS. Acc. Lands Unst 2 (Jam.), In the Parish of Unst, the teind of which being umboth, or free parsonage teind, is..payable to Lord Dundas,..who has right to the Bishop's reserved teinds. 1809 A. Edmondston Zetl. Isl. I. iv. 163 The corn teind is divided between the minister and the proprietor of the crown rents, and the share of the latter is denominated umbith or umboth duty. 1866 T. Edmondston Shetland Gloss. 135. |