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Webster 1913 Edition

Rent

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Verb.
I.
To rant.
[R. & Obs.]
Hudibras.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
imp.
&
p.
p.
of
Rend
.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Noun.
[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.
Shakespeare
2.
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation;
as, a
rent
in the church
.
Syn. – Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Verb.
T.
To tear. See
Rend
.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Rent

(rĕnt)
,
Noun.
[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.
[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)
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.
☞ The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, 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 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.

Rent

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Rented
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Renting
.]
[F.
renter
. See
Rent
,
Noun.
]
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

,
Verb.
I.
To be leased, or let for rent;
as, an estate
rents
for five hundred dollars a year
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Rent

RENT

,
pp.
of rend. Torn asunder; split or burst by violence; torn.

RENT

,
Noun.
[from rend.
1.
A fissure; a break or breach made by force; as a rent made in the earth, in a rock or in a garment.
2.
A schism; a separation; as a rent in the church.

RENT

,
Verb.
T.
To tear. [See Rend.]

RENT

,
Verb.
I.
To rant. [Not in use.]

RENT

, n.
A sum of money, or a certain amount of other valuable thing, issuing yearly from lands or tenements; a compensation or return, in the nature of an acknowledgment, for the possession of a corporeal inheritance.
Rents, at common law, are of three kinds; rent-service, rent-charge, and rent-seek. Rent-service is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distress for rent in arrear; rent-seek, dry rent, is rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress. There are also rents of assize, certain established rents of free-holders and copy-holders of manors, which cannot be varied; called also quit-rents. These when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents, or black mail. Rack-rent is a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. A fee farm rent is a rent-charge issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation.

RENT

, v.t.
1.
To lease; to grant the possession and enjoyment of lands or tenements for a consideration in the nature of rent. The owner of an estate or house rents it to a tenant for a term of years.
2.
To take and hold by lease the possession of land or a tenement, for a consideration in the nature of rent. The tenant rents his estate for a year.

RENT

,
Verb.
I.
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate or a tenement rents for five hundred dollars a year.

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