Sc. Forms: α. 4–5 talȝe, 5 taylyhe, 5–6 tailȝe, 6 taylie, tailye, tailze. β. 4– taillie, 5– tailyie, tailȝie, 6 talȝie, taillȝie, 6– tailzie. (In Sc. lȝ was the regular representative of F. ll monillé; this after 1500 was sometimes printed ly or lyh according to the sound, but more usually lz from the similarity of written z to ȝ.) [In α form talȝe, tailȝe, tailyhe, a. OF. taille cutting, = TAIL sb.2 In β form tailȝie, a. OF. tailliee, taillée, taillie (13th c. in Godef.) = Pr. talhada, It. tagliata:—late L. or Comm. Romanic *tāliāta, sb. fem. from pa. pple. of tāliāre to cut: see TAIL v.2 and -ADE. In OF., taille and tailliee were in some senses synonymous, and in Sc. spelling the α and β forms ran together, the β forms in -ie at length prevailing.)
† 1. A cut piece; a cut or slice (of meat). (prop. tailȝie = OF. tailliée.) Obs.
c. 1470. Henryson, Mor. Fab., II. (Town & C. Mouse), xvi. Muttoun and beif strukkin in tailyeis greit.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, I. iv. 92. Rent furth the entralis, sum in tailȝeis schair. Ibid., XIII. ii. 18. Syne hakkin thaime [sacrificial beasts] in talȝeis.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Storm’d (1827), 185. They denner’d weil, wi’ cheirfu’ hearts, On tailyies fat and fine.
† 2. Arrangement, fixture. [prop. tailȝe = OF. taille.] Obs.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., IX. 1137. For bathe þai war be certane tailȝe Oblist to do þat deid, sauff failȝe. Ibid., 1144. De Lyndissay and de Wellis þa, On hors ane agane a noþir ran, As þar tailȝe was ordande þan.
3. Sc. Law. A legal disposition regulating the tenure and descent of an estate or dignity; = TAIL sb.2 3, ENTAIL sb.2 1. [prop. tailȝe.]
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XX. 134 (MS. E.). And at this tailȝe [MS. C. tale] suld lelely Be haldin, all the lordis swar.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxxvi. (Baptista), 1038. Þane wes antypater wa, Þat his fadir sic a talȝe can ma.
1391. in Fraser, The Lennox (1874), II. 43. To the fulfilling of this taillie the forsaid Erl of Fife sal purches the kingis assent.
1473–4. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 6. Certane landis … to be gevin agane to his sone in talȝe.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot. (Rolls), III. 393. And gif of him the airis maill did falze, Robert his bruther the narrest of the tailze.
1578. Reg. Privy Council Scot., II. 693. All taillies from the airis generall to the airis maill.
1676. W. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xii. (1848), 452. Desiring that the tailzie of the estate of Buccluch might be broken.
1769. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit., IV. 53. [By an] Act … 20 Geo. II. … Heirs of Tailzie are allowed to sell Lands to the Crown [cf. quot. 1747 in TAILYE v. 3].
1814. Scott, Wav., x. In direct contravention of an unrecorded taillie. Ibid. (1818), Hrt. Midl., xii. Didna ye get baith liberty and conscience made fast, and settled by tailzie on you and your heirs for ever?
1832. Austin, Jurispr. (1879), II. li. 865. The fetters of a Scotch deed of tailzie.
1868. Act 31 & 32 Vict., c. 101 § 104. His heirs, whether of line, conquest, taillie, or provision.
† 4. An account or reckoning. Obs.
1497. Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 361. Giffin to the quareouris of the est quarel for schort tailȝee,… xiijs. iiijd.
1508. Kennedie, Flyting w. Dunbar, 446. A pak of flaskynnis, fynance for to mak the, Thow sall ressaue, in Danskyn, of my tailye.
