To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; - sometimes with out.
To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
The temporary transfer of a possession to another person in return for a fee or other valuable consideration paid for the transfer;
The contract for such letting.
Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
To rant.
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
imp. & p. p. of Rend.
To tear. See Rend.
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.
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
Income; revenue. See Catel.
Pay; reward; share; toll.
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.
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.
