RENT

Rent ( ) - imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rent ( imp. & p. p. ) - of Rend

Rent ( n. ) - 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.

Rent ( n. ) - An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

Rent ( n. ) - Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Rent ( n. ) - Income; revenue. See Catel.

Rent ( n. ) - Pay; reward; share; toll.

Rent ( n. ) - To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

Rent ( n. ) - To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Rent ( v. i. ) - To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Rent ( v. i. ) - To rant.

Rent ( v. t. ) - To tear. See Rend.