A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing.
A decener: a member of a tithing bound in frankpledge.
Any group so similarly answerable for the conduct of all its members and liable for collective punishment.
The tithing itself.
A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
The person or thing coming next after the ninth in a series; that which is in the tenth position.
One of ten equal parts of a whole.
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
Being one of ten equal parts of a whole.
The ordinal numeral form of ten; next in order after that which is ninth.
To divide by ten, into tenths.