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.]