Category:Rent

Rent (rnt), v. i.

Defn: to rant. [r. & obs.] Hudibras.

Rent Rent,

Defn: imp. & p. p. of rend.

Rent Rent, n. Etym: [from rend.]

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.

Rent Rent, v. t.

Defn: to tear. See rend. [obs.] Chaucer.

Rent Rent, n. Etym: [f. rente, ll. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or Neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.]

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.

Rent Rent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] Etym: [f. Renter. See rent, n.]

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.

Rent Rent, v. i.

Defn: to be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five Hundred dollars a year.

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---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Rent - (Isaiah 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Category:Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle and robe are torn [i.e., are 'a rent'] by the hand of violence."