Payment; a sum of money paid or exacted, as a tribute, tax, etc.: spec. = geld, n.2 Obsolete.

Originally: a general term for: (a) a definite payment exacted by a king, ruler, or lord, or by the state or the local authority, by virtue of…

Tax, custom, duty; = toll, n.1

Payment, tax, tribute, rent. In O.E. also: †agreement, deal (obsolete). mails and duties: the rents of an estate. Cf. blackmail, n.

A tax, a duty; (chiefly) spec. a local or municipal tax paid in proportion to one's means. Chiefly in collocation with scot, esp. in lot and scot, sc…

A sum paid as a tax or tribute. Obsolete.

The individual assessment of a subsidy or tallage levied by the king or lord; a tax, impost, due, duty, or payment levied. Obsolete.

Any payment made by or exacted from a person or persons; a tax, charge, price; a contribution; an expenditure. Also figurative. Obsolete.

esp. A payment or tax imposed upon a body of persons, or the population of a country or district, by the civil, military, or spiritual authority…

the payment or tax of ‘scat’.

Usually in plural. An obligatory payment due to an authority such as the church or the State; a tax, tribute, toll, etc. Frequently with modifying…

A sum of money owed; esp. an annual payment required from the military orders of knights. Now historical.

Anything imposed, levied, or enjoined. An impost; tax, duty; spec. in plural duties upon imports and exports imposed by the royal prerogative.

plural. Moneys due; dues; duties. Obsolete.

gen. Any toll or tax.

= toll, n.1

A tax, duty, imposition, tribute; spec. a customs-duty levied on merchandise. Now chiefly Historical.

A burden cast or laid upon people; an impost, a charge. Obsolete.

The amount or number levied. †A duty, impost, tax. Obsolete. In a trade or benefit society: A call or contribution of so much per head.

A duty recorded in such a book; the amount of the duties specified in any entry. Obsolete.

Any charge, duty, or tax. Obsolete. rare.