The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teind \Teind\, n. [Cf. Icel. t[=i]und. See Tithe.]
A tithe. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.
Wiktionary
n. (context Scotland English) A tithe.
Wikipedia
Teind is a Scots and Northern English word for tithe, meaning a tenth part. In Scotland, a teind was a tithe derived from the produce of the land for the maintenance of the clergy.
It is also an old lowland term for a tribute due to be paid by the fairies to the devil every seven years. Found in the story of Tam Lin as well as in the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer.
Usage examples of "teind".
I cannot imagine what the court of teinds would make of the instrument of endowment.
Rutherford was strongly impressed with the belief that his father had, by a form of process peculiar to the law of Scotland, purchased these teinds from the titular, and, therefore, that the present prosecution was groundless.
Rutherford, of Bowland, a gentleman of landed property in the Vale of Gala, was prosecuted for a very considerable sum, the accumulated arrears of teind (or tithe) for which he was said to be indebted to a noble family, the titulars (lay impropriators of the tithes).