In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
RENDERS
Proper noun
Renders
plural of Render
Anagrams
• rendres
Noun
renders
plural of render
Verb
renders
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of render
Anagrams
• rendres
Source: Wiktionary
RENDER
Rend"er (-r), n. Etym: [From Rend.]
Definition: One who rends.
Ren"der (rn"dr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rendered (-drd);p. pr. & vb. n. Rendering.] Etym: [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. Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.
2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Deut. xxxii. 41.
3. To give up; to yield; to surrender. I 'll make her render up her page to me. Shak.
4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute. Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts.
5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
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. He did render him the most unnatural That lived amongst men. Shak.
9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
Ren"der, v. i.
1. To give an account; to make explanation or confession. [Obs.]
2. (Naut.)
Definition: 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.
Ren"der, n.
1. A surrender. [Obs.] Shak.
2. A return; a payment of rent. 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.
3. An account given; a statement. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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