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Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), v. t.
To tear. See {Rend}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), n. [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. Income; revenue. See {Catel}. [Obs.] "Catel had they
enough and rent." --Chaucer.
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[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent
In wine and bordel he dispent. --Gower.
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So bought an annual rent or two,
And liv'd, just as you see I do. --Pope.
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2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]
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Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.
--Chaucer.
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3. (Law) 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.
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Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation
for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a
sewing machine, etc.
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4. (Polit. Econ.)
(a) That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the
landlord for the use of the "original and
indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the
return from a given piece of cultivated land over that
from land of equal area at the "margin of
cultivation." Called also {economic rent}, or
{Ricardian rent}. Economic rent is due partly to
differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages
of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or
commercial rent less interest on improvements, and
nearly equivalent to ground rent.
(b) Loosely, a return or profit from a differential
advantage for production, as in case of income or
earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural
monopoly.
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{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 Statute 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.
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Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), v. i.
To rant. [R. & Obs.] --Hudibras.
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Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt),
imp. & p. p. of {Rend}.
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Rent \Rent\ (r[e^]nt), n. [From {Rend}.]
1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by
force; a tear.
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See what a rent the envious Casca made. --Shak.
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2. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a
separation; as, a rent in the church.
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Syn: Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear;
dilaceration; break; fracture.
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Rent \Rent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Renting}.] [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.
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2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the
tennant rents an estate of the owner.
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Rent \Rent\, v. i.
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five
hundred dollars a year.
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Rend \Rend\ (r[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rent} (r[e^]nt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Rending}.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries.
renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to
push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r[ae]na to rob,
plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor.
ranna.]
1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to
tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock
in blasting; lightning rends an oak.
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The dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. --Shak.
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2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
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An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden.
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I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings
xi. 11.
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{To rap and rend}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch.
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Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture;
crack; split.
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