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n. A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is in nonpareil Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. comperendinatus, p. p. of comperendinare to defer (the time of trial.) ] To delay. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F. ] A report of an officer or agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hung., lit., House of Lords. ] (Hungary) See Legislature. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. horrendus. ] Fearful; frightful. [ Obs. ] I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Irreverent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. & n. [ It. ] (Mus.) Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nonrendition of a service which is due. S. E. Dwight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prendre to take, fr. L. prehendere to take. ] (Law) The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. referendarius, fr. L. referendus to be referred, gerundive of referre: cf. F. référendaire. See Refer. ] 1. One to whose decision a cause is referred; a referee. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An officer who delivered the royal answer to petitions. “Referendaries, or masters of request.” Harmar. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Formerly, an officer of state charged with the duty of procuring and dispatching diplomas and decrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -da /plu> [ Gerundive fr. L. referre. See Refer. ] 1. A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The right to approve or reject by popular vote a meassure passed upon by a legislature. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The principle or practice of referring measures passed upon by the legislative body to the body of voters, or electorate, for approval or rejection, as in the Swiss cantons (except Freiburg) and in various local governments in the United States, and also in the local option laws, etc.; also, the right to so approve or reject laws, or the vote by which this is done. Referendum is distinguished from the mandate, or instruction of representatives by the people, from direct government by the people, in which they initiate and make the laws by direct action without representation, and from a plebiscite, or popular vote taken on any measure proposed by a person or body having the initiative but not constituting a representative or constituent body. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rent p. pr. & vb. n. Rending. ] [ AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries. renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. ræna to rob, plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor. ranna. ] 1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force. [ 1913 Webster ]

An empire from its old foundations rent. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. 1 Kings xi. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

To rap and rend. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture; crack; split. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Rend. ] One who rends. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Rendered p. pr. & vb. n. Rendering. ] [ F. rendre, LL. rendre, fr. L. reddere; pref. red-, re-, re- + dare to give. See Datetime, and cf. Reddition, Rent. ] 1. To return; to pay back; to restore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Deut. xxxii. 41. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give up; to yield; to surrender. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll make her render up her page to me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

He did render him the most unnatural
That lived amongst men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To give an account; to make explanation or confession. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A surrender. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A return; a payment of rent. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those early times the king's household was supported by specific renders of corn and other victuals from the tenants of the demains. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An account given; a statement. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being rendered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who renders. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who renders, or that which is rendered. Specifically: (a) A version; translation; as, the rendering of the Hebrew text. Lowth. (b) In art, the presentation, expression, or interpretation of an idea, theme, or part. (c) The act of laying the first coat of plaster on brickwork or stonework. (d) The coat of plaster thus laid on. Gwilt. (e) The process of trying out or extracting lard, tallow, etc., from animal fat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Rendezvouses [ Rare in the plural. ] [ F. rendez-vous, properly, render yourselves, repair to a place. See Render. ] 1. A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet. [ 1913 Webster ]

An inn, the free rendezvous of all travelers. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king appointed his whole army to be drawn together to a rendezvous at Marlborough. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A meeting by appointment. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Retreat; refuge. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rendezvoused p. pr. & vb. n. Rendezvousing ] To assemble or meet at a particular place. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled. Echard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Rend. ] Capable of being rent or torn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Render. ] Capable, or admitting, of being rendered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render, and cf. Reddition. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Translation; rendering; version. [ 1913 Webster ]

This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of dynamite used in blasting. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. révérend, L. reverendus, fr. revereri. See Revere. ] Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

A reverend sire among them came. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is commonly given as a title of respect to ecclesiastics. A clergyman is styled the reverend; a dean, the very reverend; a bishop, the right reverend; an archbishop, the most reverend. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Reverently. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Surrendered p. pr. & vb. n. Surrendering. ] [ OF. surrendre to deliver; sur over + rendre to render. See Sur-, and Render. ] 1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage. [ 1913 Webster ]

To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion. (b) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail. (c) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Insurance) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the
surrender value). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Law) The person to whom a surrender is made. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who surrenders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Surrender. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. To-rent. ] [ Pref. to- + rend. ] To rend in pieces. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to turn; to bend. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends
Her silver stream. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Trended; p. pr. & vb. n. Trending. ] [ OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle. ] To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate. ] To cleanse, as wool. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Clean wool. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. trendel, tryndel, circle, ring. See Trend, v. i., and cf. Trundle. ] A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]