Antirenter: alternatives and connections

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born o…

A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly ap…

That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part ha…

Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

A writing under seal, by which a person binds himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum on or before a f…

A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at pea…

To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disru…

To seize, as a pledge or indemnification; to take possession of as security for nonpayment of rent, the reparation of an injury done,…

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

The payment of a rent or annuity.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff.

A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security f…

That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction.

A stated payment, especially a payment of rent for land; hence, the time for such payment.

See Manorial.

The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific…