Chapter Tisic to Titularly of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.

2. Hence, a small part or proportion. Bacon.

Great tithes, tithes of corn, hay, and wood. — Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc. — Small tithes, personal and mixed tithes. — Tithe commissioner, one of a board of officers appointed by the government for arranging propositions for commuting, or compounding for, tithes. [Eng.] Simmonds.

Tithe
(Tithe), a. Tenth. [Obs.]

Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand.

Shak.

Tithe
(Tithe), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tithed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tithing.] [As. teóian.] To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth; to pay tithes on.

Ye tithe mint and rue.

Luke xi. 42.

Tithe
(Tithe), v. i. Tp pay tithes. [R.] Tusser.

Tither
(Tith"er) n.

1. One who collects tithes. Milton.

2. One who pays tithes. [R.] Chaucer.

Tithing
(Tith"ing), n. [AS. teóung.]

1. The act of levying or taking tithes; that which is taken as tithe; a tithe.

To take tithing of their blood and sweat.

Motley.

2. (O. Eng. Law) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary. Blackstone.

Tithingman
(Tith"ing*man) n.; pl. Tithingmen

1. (O. Eng. Law) The chief man of a tithing; a headborough; one elected to preside over the tithing.

2. (Law) A peace officer; an under constable.

3. A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath. [Local, U. S.]

Tithly
(Tith"ly) a. [From Tith.] Tightly; nimbly. [Obs.] "I have seen him trip it tithly." Beau. & Fl.

Tithonic
(Ti*thon"ic) a. [L. Tithonius belonging to Tithonus, the consort of Aurora, Gr. .] Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic. [R.]

Tithonicity
(Tith`o*nic"i*ty) n. (Chem. & Physics) The state or property of being tithonic; actinism. [R.]