An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
The payment of tithes.
A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
The collection of tithes.
Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe-proctor).
A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.