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, 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…

ed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies.

Redelivery; repayment. [Obs.] "Yearly resolutes, deductions, and payments." Bp. Burnet.

isposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.

Ability to answer in payment; means of paying.

f resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.

To pay back; to give in return, as payment, reward, or punishment; to requite; as, to retribute one for his kindness; to retribute just punishment to a criminal. [Obs. or R.] Locke.

The act of retributing; repayment. In good offices and due retributions, we may not be pinching and niggardly. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to retribution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

of returning (transitive), or sending back to the same place or condition; restitution; repayment; requital; retribution; as, the return of anything borrowed, as a book or money; a good return in tennis. You made my liberty your late request: Is no return due from a grateful breast Dryden.

A payment which is not to be received, or a benefit which does not begin, until the happening of some event, as the death of a living person. Brande &C.

ty, but is permitted to discharge all his obligations to his feudal lord or superior by a payment of rent in money or kind and without rendering any personal services.

To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; - - with on.

Settlement of a claim, due, or demand; payment; indemnification; adequate compensation. We shall make full satisfaction. Shak.

To make payment or atonement; to atone. Milton.

tive; as, he had, say fifty thousand dollars; the fox had run, say ten miles. Say, for nonpayment that the debt should double, Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble Shak. It is said, or They say, it is commonly reported; it is rumored; people assert or maintain. -- That is to say, that is; in other words; otherwise.…

Free from payment of scot; untaxed; hence, unhurt; clear; safe. Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free. Sir W. Scott. Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland. A. Lang.

her joint property, or a loan, stating the amount of the subscription and the date of the payment of the installments; as, insurance scrip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

ged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

A share of the receipts of a business taken in payment for the use of a right, as a copyright or a patent.