Escort \Es*cort"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Escorted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Escorting}.] [Cf. F. escorter, It. scortare. See {Escort}, n.] To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
Syn: To accompany; attend. See {Accompany}.
Escort \Es"cort\, n. [F. escorte, It. scorta a guard or guide, fr. scorgere to perceive, discern, lead, fr. L. ex out, quite + corrigere to correct, set right. See {Correct}.] 1. A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
The troops of my escort marched at the ordinary rate. --Burke.
2. Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
U.S. warships escort American-flagged Kuwaiti tankers through the waterway to protect them from Iranian attacks.
The convoy was the 28th this year and the 50th since the United States agreed last summer to reflag and escort 11 Kuwait-owned tankers to protect them from Iranian attack.
Under terms of the treaty, the visitors may not travel without an American escort or or go more than 31 miles from Hercules.
George, as chairman of the student deacons, got to escort the secretary to the podium, in addition to his regular duties of checking attendance and taking up the collection.
The mistake happened about 8 p.m. Friday when the night manager placed money from the cash registers in a money bag, then placed that bag inside a McDonald's bag while she awaited a police escort to the bank, police Capt.
"They were taping and taking pictures," our escort said to the captain.
Revenge!" as they buried sailors killed Monday in the most serious engagement between Iran the Navy since President Reagan ordered U.S. warships to the gulf to escort reflagged Kuwaiti tankers in July.
Kuwaiti oil tankers flying the American flag began moving through the gulf yesterday under U.S. Navy escort, underscoring the tension in the region.
But if Bob Simon, CBS News's veteran war correspondent, interviews the soldier with a military escort by his side, will the soldier really tell the truth?
Accompanied by three escort ships, the Saratoga had dropped anchor off Haifa on Thursday, and shore leave for 1,920 of the crew began Friday.
The battleship Iowa and two other ships were withdrawn earlier from the U.S. task force operating in the Arabian Sea outside the gulf, in support of the navy's escort operations.
Mitterrand and his motocycle escort left first, as is the custom for the host.
On Monday night, doctors ordered him transferred by ambulance under police escort to the Quiron Clinic in Barcelona, 60 miles south, where he was immediately placed in the intensive care unit for treatment, his doctors said.
U.S. players seemed tired after most rose early to escort their eloping captain to the airport.
There have been no direct attacks on any of the vessels since the escort operations began.
For tomorrow's last ride to the Boca Raton Mausoleum, she even hired a police motorcycle escort.
He said Brown left the station under police escort and made his way to a car in a nearby parking lot.
Sandy Snell is a ranger-naturalist who has been turned into a media escort.
Bloyer said a four-member congressional delegation planned to fly to Ethiopia to escort the bodies home but would not leave Washington until the remains had been identified.
The Royal Navy has navigated the constraints of the defence budget to provide an escort vessel. The Duke of Edinburgh will be donning his oilskins.
They hinged instead on the powers of Congress and the Executive Branch to make or risk war in a time of limited conflicts, surgical strikes, terrorism and, most recently, naval escort missions for reflagged Kuwaiti ships in the Persian Gulf.
A Greek Navy vessel and a yacht will escort the boat, said Haris Tzalas, head of the Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, which organized the project.
With her strong, clear voice, figure-hugging gowns and constant escort of pet poodles, Yana won a huge following in Britain.
The lawsuit filed Friday in state court says pageant directors should have warned her she was a potential sexual assault victim and provided her security and an escort.
Outside the church, police officers formed an honor guard, and a police escort led the procession to In Memoriam Cemetery.
Gerardo Protacio ordered gunships and rocket-firing planes to escort helicopters carrying relief supplies to villages stricken by the quake.
For tranquillity, one must observe the women's draw; there, the seeds toured the park regally with armed escort, and the top eight all advanced to the round of 16.
Police in Lyon, Brest, Rennes and Rochefort herded 26 Iraqi technicians and military personnel, including four air force pilots, into buses and cars and took them under escort to Paris.
The government-funded English Heritage, which manages the site, said the vagabonds had earlier this week refused an offer of 1,100 tickets to attend the ceremony under escort.
Fitzwater refused to say whether Iran's move would lead to a lowering of the U.S. military profile in the Persian Gulf, but he said Washington has been prepared to terminate tanker escort operations if peace came to the region.