Quitrent Quit"rent`, n. [Quit, a. + rent] (Law) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. --Blackstone. Note: In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. --Burrill., Trental Tren"tal, n. [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. ``Their trentals and their shrifts.' --Spenser. 2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy., Trente et quarante Trente" et` qua`rante" [F., lit., thirty and forty.] Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge., Trenton period Tren"ton pe"ri*od (Geol.) A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.
Trental Tren"tal, n. [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. ``Their trentals and their shrifts.' --Spenser. 2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Trental Tren"tal, n. [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. ``Their trentals and their shrifts.' --Spenser. 2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Trental Tren"tal, n. [LL. trentale, fr. L. triginta thirty; akin to tres three: cf. OF. trentel. See Three, and cf. Trigintal.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. ``Their trentals and their shrifts.' --Spenser. 2. Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
Trente et quarante Trente" et` qua`rante" [F., lit., thirty and forty.] Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.
Trente et quarante Trente" et` qua`rante" [F., lit., thirty and forty.] Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.
Trenton period Tren"ton pe"ri*od (Geol.) A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.