Rent /(rĕnt)/

Rent

v. i.

imp. & p. p.

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
See what a rent the envious Casca made.
— Shak.
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

v. t.

Income; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.]
[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.
Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]
Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.
— Chaucer.
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. (Law)
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. (Polit. Econ.)

Black rent: See Blackmail, 3.
Forehand rent: rent which is paid in advance; foregift.
Rent arrear: 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. — Blackstone.
Rent roll: a list or account of rents or income; a rental.
Rent seck: 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: 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.

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

v. i.

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