*render*

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]