Sc. and north. 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 sb., collateral form of TENTH, q.v.: cf. also TITHE.]
B. sb. † 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. Ibid. (13[?]), 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. Or 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 [rhymes, schend, freynde, wende].
2. spec. A tenth part of the produce of land or labor paid (voluntarily, or by legal enactment) for the support of religion: TITHE sb. 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]. Ibid. (13[?]), 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, trans. 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.
15[?]. Tam Lin, 109, in Quiller-Couch, Oxf. Bk. Ballads (1910).
| And pleasant is the fairy land | |
| For those that in it dwell, | |
| But ay at end of seven years | |
| They pay a teind to hell. |
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, court, day, -lathe (= tithe-barn), law, -master, office; paid as tithe, as teind calf, coal, corn, fish, grice, hay, lamb, sheaf, silver, skate, 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 tun 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.
