Rent : Definition

Pronunciation : Rent (rnt)
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Rent
Definition : Defn: imp. & p. p. of Rend.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Rent
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [From Rend.]
Definition : 1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. See what a rent the envious Casca made. Shak.

2. Figuratively, a schim; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Syn. -- Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; diaceration; break; fracture.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Rent
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Rent
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.]
Definition : 1. Incone; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] "Catel had they enough and rent." Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. Pope.

2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. Chaucer.

3. (Law)

Defn: A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattles, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc. Black rent. See Blackmail, 3. -- Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. -- Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone. -- Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it, Bouvier. -- Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. -- Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statue 4 George II. c. 28. -- Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. -- White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Rent
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [F. renter. See Rent, n.]
Definition : 1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Rent
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913