tiend

English

Noun

tiend (plural tiends)

1. Alternative form of teind
   • 1693, James Viscount of Stair, The Institutions of The Law of Scotland, book 4, title 24 “Petitory Actions for Tiends or Tiend-duties”, page 615:

     Tiends are introduced by Law and Custom, … for Tennents paying a Joint-duty for Stock and Tiend, are not liable for the Tiend (but their Masters are)…

   • 1804, February 6, anonymous, The Farmer's Magazine, volume 5, “On Augmentation of Stipends in Victual”, page 48:

     In New Luce, Wigtonshire, the free tiends of the parish are already exhausted … the sum modified would more than exhaust the tiend, part being in grain…

   • 1884, Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1, part 2, ballad 39A “Tam Lin”, verse 24, page 342:

     Ay at the end of seven years,
     We pay a tiend to hell,

Anagrams

• denti-, detin, ident, indet., teind, tined