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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Rape
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(1):
(n.) The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
(2):
(n.) Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
(3):
(n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
(4):
(n.) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
(5):
(n.) That which is snatched away.
(6):
(v. t.) To commit rape upon; to ravish.
(7):
(n.) One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
(8):
(v. i.) To rob; to pillage.
(9):
(n.) The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
(10):
(n.) A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.
(11):
(n.) Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.