n. [ Quit, a. + rent. ] (Law) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal. ]
‖ [ F., lit., thirty and forty. ] Same as
(Geol.) A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from