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A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

One who is subjected to playing rack-rent.

Returning from time to time; recurring; as, recurrent pains.

Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use. -- Ref`er*en"tial*ly, adv.

Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. "A reverential esteem of things sacred." South.

In a reverential manner.

In a reverent manner; in respectful regard.

A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea.

Adherent part way.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

Always fresh; evergreen. [R.] Smart.

A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

Ornamental work, mostly carved in olivewood, decorated with inlay, made at or near Sorrento, Italy. Hence, more rarely, jig-saw work and the like done anywhere.

p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled. All the ground with purple blood was sprent. Spenser.

Stepfather or stepmother.

Not perfectly transparent.

A harmless lizard of the Gecko family (Platydactylus Mauritianicus) found in Southern Europe and adjacent countries, especially among old walls and ruins.

See Tarantism.