Sc. and north. ? Obs. Forms: see TEIND sb. [f. TEIND sb.: 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 we 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 Teinder, one who pays or takes teind, or tithe; Teinding vbl. sb., 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. Na swyne be seen in any Comoun of the town fra the tent day of May untill the first day of the teynding be past.
1884. J. Tait, in United Presbyt. Mag., April, 156. The arrangement of thirders and teinders described by Arthur Young.
1905. C. B. Gunn, Baron Crt. Stitchill, Introd. xv. The minister on his part might delay teinding until the weather was breaking, with the crops lying out exposed to all risks.
