/tuy"dhing/ , n.
1. a tithe.
2. a giving or an exacting of tithes.
3. a grouping of men, originally 10 in number, for legal and security purposes in the Anglo-Saxon and Norman system of frankpledge.
4. a rural division in England, originally regarded as one tenth of a hundred, descended from this system.
[ bef. 950; ME; OE tigething. See TITHE, -ING 1 ]