tiend

Noun

 * 1) * 1693,, 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)…
 * 1) * 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…
 * 1) * 1884,, 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,
 * Ay at the end of seven years, We pay a tiend to hell,