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Teinds

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Tithes.

“Taking down from the window-seat that amusing folio (The Scottish Coke upon Littleton), he opened it, as if instinctively, at the tenth title of Book Second, ‘of Teinds or Tythes.ʹ”—Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxxv.

N.B. Those entitled to tithes were called in Scotland “teind-masters.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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