Renne
(Ren"ne) v. t. To plunder; — only in the phrase "to rape and renne." See under Rap, v. t., to
snatch. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Renne
(Ren"ne), v. i. To run. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Renner
(Ren"ner) n. A runner. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Rennet
(Ren"net) n. [F. rainette, reinette, perhaps fr. raine a tree frog, L. rana, because it is spotted
like this kind of frog. Cf. Ranunculus.] (Bot.) A name of many different kinds of apples. Cf. Reinette.
Mortimer.
Rennet
(Ren"net), n. [AS. rinnan, rennan, to run, cf. gerinnan to curdle, coagulate. &radic11. See
Run, v.] The inner, or mucous, membrane of the fourth stomach of the calf, or other young ruminant; also,
an infusion or preparation of it, used for coagulating milk. [Written also runnet.]
Cheese rennet. (Bot.) See under Cheese. — Rennet ferment (Physiol. Chem.), a ferment, present
in rennet and in variable quantity in the gastric juice of most animals, which has the power of curdling
milk. The ferment presumably acts by changing the casein of milk from a soluble to an insoluble form.
— Rennet stomach (Anat.), the fourth stomach, or abomasum, of ruminants.
Renneted
(Ren"net*ed), a. Provided or treated with rennet. [R.] "Pressed milk renneted." Chapman.
Renneting
(Ren"net*ing), n. (Bot.) Same as 1st Rennet.
Renning
(Ren"ning) n. See 2d Rennet. [Obs.]
Asses' milk is holden for to be thickest, and therefore they use it instead of renning, to turn milk.
Holland. Renomee
(Re`no*mee") n. [F. renommée.] Renown. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Renounce
(Re*nounce") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Renounced (-nounst"); p. pr. & vb. n. Renouncing ]
[F. renoncer, L. renuntiare to bring back word, announce, revoke, retract, renounce; pref. re- re- +
nuntiare to announce, fr. nuncius, a messenger. See Nuncio, and cf. Renunciation.]
1. To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to
disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land or to a throne.
2. To cast off or reject deliberately; to disown; to dismiss; to forswear.
This world I do renounce, and in your sights
Shake patiently my great affliction off.
Shak. 3. (Card Playing) To disclaim having a card of (the suit led) by playing a card of another suit.
To renounce probate (Law), to decline to act as the executor of a will. Mozley & W.
Syn. — To cast off; disavow; disown; disclaim; deny; abjure; recant; abandon; forsake; quit; forego; resign; relinquish; give
up; abdicate. — Renounce, Abjure, Recant. — To renounce is to make an affirmative declaration
of abandonment. To abjure is to renounce with, or as with, the solemnity of an oath. To recant is to
renounce or abjure some proposition previously affirmed and maintained.
From Thebes my birth I own; . . . since no disgrace
Can force me to renounce the honor of my race.
Dryden.
Either to die the death, or to abjure
Forever the society of man.
Shak.
Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Milton.
