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Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8. That they may have their wages duly paid 'em, And something over to remember me by. Shak. Remember what I warn thee; shun to taste. Milton.

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.

Money anciently paid by servile tenants to their lord, in lieu of the customary service of reaping his corn or grain.

good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler.

Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

The money or other thing repaid.

Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, rent seck, pensions, annuities, and the like. [Written also reprizes.] Burrill.

To lay or place at rest; to quiet. Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. Dryden.

To keep in pay; to employ by a preliminary fee paid; to hire; to engage; as, to retain a counselor. A Benedictine convent has now retained the most learned father of their order to write in its defense. Addison.

debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.

Compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act. Burrill.

A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.

. . they were come to that height of excess herein, that twenty shillings were used to be paid for starching of a ruff. Howell.

t once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid. Sir J. Child.

th or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak.

Receiving a salary; paid by a salary; having a salary attached; as, a salaried officer; a salaried office.

The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak.

A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.

Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.