- (v.t.) Any tenure by grant or permission; the time for which such a tenure holds good; allotted time.
- (v.t.) A demise or letting of lands, tenements or hereditaments to another for life, for a term of years or at will or for any less interest than that which the lessor has in the property, usually for a specified rent or compensation.
- (v.t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner.
- (v.i.) To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean.
- (v.t.) To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out.
- (v.t.) The contract for such letting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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