A pig due or taken as tithe.
1555. [see TITHE sb.1 4 a].
1562. Child-Marr., 138. He thinkes the tithe pigge withelden, was worthe xxd,—for so they sell.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. iv. 79. Somtime comes she with Tith pigs tale [tail], tickling a Parsons nose as a lies asleepe.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., III. i. 1074. A parson that was neuer in the vniuersity, is a liuing creature that can eate a tithe pigge.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. III. 1206. Where ev’ry Village is a See As well as Rome, and must maintain A Tithe-Pig Metropolitan.
1772. R. Graves, Spir. Quixote (1820), II. 249. Then the rector, In sleek surcingle with good tithe-pig stuff’d.
1826. Scott, Woodst., xvi. The parsons … have lost their tithe-pigs.
