Of a good stirring strain too, she goes tith.
Beau. & Fl.
Tith"a*ble (?), a. Subject to the payment of tithes; as, tithable
lands.
Tithe (?), n. [OE. tithe, tethe, properly an adj., tenth, AS. teó&?;a
the tenth; akin to tién, t&?;n, tn, ten, G. zehnte, adj., tenth, n., a
tithe, Icel. tund the tenth; tithe, Goth. taíhunda tenth. See Ten, and
cf. Tenth, Teind.] 1. A tenth; the tenth part of anything;
specifically, the tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of
land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in
England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses. Almost all the
tithes of England and Wales are commuted by law into rent charges.
The tithes of the corn, the new wine, and the oil.
Neh. xiii. 5.
Tithes are called personal when accuring from labor, art, trade, and
navigation; predial, when issuing from the earth, as hay, wood, and
fruit; and mixed, when accuring from beaste fed from the ground.
Blackstone.