RENDER

Definitions

1. 1. To return; to pay back; to restore. Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may. Spenser.
2. 2. To inflict, as a retribution; to requite. I will render vengeance to mine enemies. Deut. xxxii. 41.
3. 3. To give up; to yield; to surrender. I 'll make her render up her page to me. Shak.
4. 4. Hence, to furnish; to contribute. Logic renders its daily service to wisdom and virtue. I. Watts.
5. 5. To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
6. 6. To cause to be, or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
7. 7. To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
8. 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. 9. To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
10. 10. To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.