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RAPE, n. [L. rapio, raptus. See Rap.]

1. In a general sense, a seizing by violence; also, a seizing and carrying away by force, as females.

2. In law, the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will.

3. Privation; the act of seizing or taking away.

And ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.

4. something taken or seized and carried away.

Where now are all my hopes? oh, never more shall they revive, nor death her rapes restore.

5. Fruit plucked from the cluster.

6. A division of a county in Sussex, in England; or an intermediate division between a hundred and a shire, and containing three or four hundreds.

RAPE, n. [L. rapa, Gr.]

A plant of the genus Brassica, called also cole-rape and cole-seed, and of which the navew or French turnip is a variety.

The broom-rape is of the genus Orobanche.
1913 Definition
Rape (rape)
n.(r1913 webster dictionaryp)
Rape
[F. râpe a grape stalk.]
  1. Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.
    Ray.
  2. The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.
  3. A filter containing the above refuse, used in clarifying and perfecting malt, vinegar, etc.

    Rape wine, a poor, thin wine made from the last dregs of pressed grapes.

  4. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.

    And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. Sandys.

  5. Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
  6. That which is snatched away.
    [Obs.]

    Where now are all my hopes? O, never more
    Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.     Sandys.

  7. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
    [Obs.]
  8. To commit rape upon; to ravish.

    To rape and ren. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch.

  9. To rob; to pillage.
    [Obs.] Heywood.
  10. One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
  11. 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.

    * These plants, with the edible turnip, have been variously named, but are all now believed to be derived from the Brassica campestris of Europe, which by some is not considered distinct from the wild stock (B. oleracea) of the cabbage. See Cole.

    Broom rape. (Bot.) See Broom rape, in the Vocabulary. -- Rape cake, the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the rape seed. -- Rape root. Same as Rape. -- Summer rape. (Bot.) See Colza.

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