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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One that receives payment in exchange for the use of one's property by another.
  2. n. One that pays rent for the use of another's property; a tenant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who leases an estate; more commonly, the lessee or tenant who takes an estate or a tenement on rent.
  2. n. One who rents or hires anything.
  3. In tap estry, to work new warp into in order to restore the original pattern or design.
  4. Hence To finedraw; sew together, as the edges of two pieces of cloth, without doubling them, so that the seam is scarcely visible.
  5. n. One who collects rents.
  6. n. A shareholder in a theater.
  7. n. In telephony, a subscriber.

Wiktionary

  1. n. One who rents property from another.
  2. n. law One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
  3. v. To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  4. v. To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
  2. v. To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
  3. v. To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; -- said with reference to tapestry.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an owner of property who receives payment for its use by another person
  2. n. someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else

Etymologies

  1. French rentraire; Latin prefix re- re- + in into, in + trahere to draw. (Wiktionary)

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  • ruzuzu "In tapestry, to work new warp into in order to restore the original pattern or design.
    Hence To finedraw; sew together, as the edges of two pieces of cloth, without doubling them, so that the seam is scarcely visible." --CD&C
    Feb 7, 2012

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