Re*nown"ful (-f?l), a. Having great renown; famous. "Renownful Scipio."
Marston.
Re*nown"less, a. Without renown; inglorius.
Rens"se*laer*ite (r?ns"se-l?r-?t), n. (Min.) A soft, compact variety of
talc,, being an altered pyroxene. It is often worked in a lathe into
inkstands and other articles.
Rent (r?nt), v. i. To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.
Rent, imp. & p. p. of Rend.
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.
Rent, v. t. To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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.