Rent | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Rĕnt, imp. & p. p.

past tensepast participle

imp. & p. p. of rend.

Rĕnt, n.

noun

n. [From rend.] 1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force.

See what a rent the envious Casca made. Shak.

Sense 2. A schism; a separation; as, a rent in the church. White.

Synonyms—Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.

Rēnt, v. t.

verbtransitive

To tear. [Obs.] See REND. Chaucer.

Rēnt, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To rant. [Obs. and rare.] Hudibras.

Rēnt, n.

noun

[Fr. rente, Pr. & L. Lat. renta, renda, Sp. renta, O. Sp. & Pg. renda, It. rendita, from Lat. reddita, pl. of redditum, from reddere, to give back, to pay; A-S. rent, D., Dan., & Ger. rente, Sw. renta, ränta, Icel. renta. See RENDER.]

Sense 1. A certain periodical profit in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in retribution for the use; a compensation or return, in the nature of an acknowledgment, for the possession of a corporeal inheritance.

Rent. Blackstone.

Sense 2. That which is invested for the sake of return; capital invested in public funds, stocks, &c. [French usage.]

Rent-arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone.

Rēnt, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. RENTED; p. pr. & vb. n. RENTING.] [Fr. renter, Sp. rentar. See supra.]

To grant the possession and enjoyment of; to lease; as, the owner of an estate or house rents it to a tenant for a term of years.
To take and hold by lease the possession of; as, the tenant rents the estate for five hundred dollars a year.

Rēnt, v. t.

verbtransitive

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