1. [n]  the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
2. [n]  an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"
3. [n]  a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property
4. [n]  the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
5. [adj]  shattered or torn up or torn apart violently as by e.g. wind or lightning or explosive; "an old blasted apple tree"; "a tree rent by lightning"; "cities torn by bombs"; "earthquake-torn streets"
6. [v]  engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
7. [v]  grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
8. [v]  let for money; of housing
9. [v]  hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

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1. \Rent\, n. (Polit. Econ.)
   (a) 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, 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.
   (b) Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage
       for production, as in case of income or earnings due to
       rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.
   

2. \Rent\ (r?nt), v. i.
   To rant. [R. & Obs.] --Hudibras.
   

3. \Rent\,
   imp. & p. p. of {Rend}.
   

4. \Rent\, n. [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. --Shak.
   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.
   

5. \Rent\, v. t.
   To tear. See {Rend}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
   

6. \Rent\, n. [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.
   Note: 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.
   

7. \Rent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rented}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Renting}.] [F. renter. See {Rent}, n.]
   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.
   

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

(Isa. 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle and robe are torn [i.e., are 'a rent'] by the hand of violence."