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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Teinds

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.' ” —Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxxv.

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

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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