Rape \Rape\, n. [Akin to rap to snatch, but confused with L. rapere. See {Rap} to snatch.] 1. The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery.
And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. --Sandys.
2. (Law) Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See {Age of consent}, under {Consent}, n.
3. That which is snatched away. [Obs.]
Where now are all my hopes? O, never more Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore. --Sandys.
4. Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry. [Obs.]
5. (Fig., Colloq.) An action causing results harmful to a person or thing; as, the rape of the land by mining companies. [PJC]
Rape \Rape\ (r[=a]p), n. [F. r[^a]pe 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.
Rape \Rape\, v. t. 1. To commit rape upon; to ravish.
2. (Fig., Colloq.) To perform an action causing results harmful or very unpleasant to a person or thing; as, women raped first by their assailants, and then by the Justice system. Corresponds to 2nd {rape}, n. 5. [PJC]
{To rape and ren}. See under {Rap}, v. t., to snatch.
Rape \Rape\, v. i. To rob; to pillage. [Obs.] --Heywood.
Rape \Rape\, n. [Icel. hreppr village, district; cf. Icel. hreppa to catch, obtain, AS. hrepian, hreppan, to touch.] One of six divisions of the county of Sussex, England, intermediate between a hundred and a shire.
Rape \Rape\, n. [L. rapa, rapum, akin to Gr. "ra`pys, "ra`fys, G. r["u]be.] (Bot.) 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.
Note: 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 ({Brassica 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}.
Cole \Cole\ (k[=o]l), n. [OE. col, caul, AS. cawl, cawel, fr. L. caulis, the stalk or stem of a plant, esp. a cabbage stalk, cabbage, akin to Gr. kaylo`s. Cf. {Cauliflower}, {Kale}.] (Bot.) A plant of the {Brassica} or Cabbage genus; esp. that form of {Brassica oleracea} called {rape} and {coleseed}.
'She probably cried rape because the geezer didn't please her'.
Underwood, who has been on unpaid medical leave, said she has been diagnosed as having post-traumatic stress syndrome, a condition associated with Vietnam veterans, rape victims and people who have been tortured.
Both were charged with nine counts of sodomy and rape, according to police spokesman Capt.
He was released in the early 1980s but subsequently was arrested in the United States on charges of rape and armed robbery, the DEA said without giving the outcome of those cases.
Other children told of rape and sodomy inflicted by masked and hooded adults during ceremonial torture sessions.
But Allen said this exception cannot be applied to all rape cases.
Among several amendments the Senate rejected was one that would have waived parental consent if a girl was the victim of rape or incest.
The survey of 3,187 female and 3,000 male college students randomly selected in the 1985-86 school year found only 27 percent of the women deemed to have been victims of rape or attempted rape considered themselves crime victims.
The survey of 3,187 female and 3,000 male college students randomly selected in the 1985-86 school year found only 27 percent of the women deemed to have been victims of rape or attempted rape considered themselves crime victims.
Houston attorney G. Robert Friedman, who represented the victim, says he believes it is one of the largest rape settlements in history.
This follows last month's abortion controversy over a 14-year-old rape victim.
Later, he said he opposed abortion except in cases of rape, incest and danger to the mother's life.
It's like being a rape victim," says H. Alfred Solomon, executor of the Solomon estate and a friend of Mr. Thorp since their school days at Shadyside.
President Bush's veto of a bill to provide abortion assistance to impoverished victims of rape and incest was sustained in the House on Wednesday as a 231-191 vote to override him fell 51 votes short of the necessary two-thirds margin.
Six teen-agers have been indicted on charges of attempted murder, rape, sodomy and assault.
Critics say the laws make no exceptions for rape or incest, but Guste said abortions in such cases could be considered therapeutic and, therefore, legal.
The treatment had been ordered for a conviction for a 1986 rape.
Millions of people buy train magazines and never drive a train, just as millions buy violent pornography and never rape or abuse.
The rape suspect the officers were seeking was arrested Christmas Day in Texas.
In 1976, when Norris was 64 years old, the Alabama Pardon and Parole Board unanimously found that Norris was innocent of rape charges.
The Des Moines Register for a series about the rape of an Iowa woman and how she coped with the emotional trauma and legal ordeal that followed.
Attorneys for a 15-year-old allegedly impregnated in a gang rape plan to appeal a court ruling upholding a law that bans Medicaid funding for abortions.
The Herald reporter called it "nothing less than mind rape." Tight end Zeke Mowatt was fined $2,000 and apologized, but denied making lewd gestures or comments.
It is reckoned that only one rape in ten is reported; in three-quarters of those that are, the woman knows her partner.
"Because the bodies of the two women were completely nude and both were bruised around the breasts and on the inside of the thighs, rape or attempted rape is presumed," the report said.
"Because the bodies of the two women were completely nude and both were bruised around the breasts and on the inside of the thighs, rape or attempted rape is presumed," the report said.
"Go a step further, Jim," Campbell countered. "If a poor woman was raped, you are saying she should not be able to have an abortion if she can't afford one even if she's a victim of rape.
He claimed the veto reflected his objection to the law's harsh provisions on rape cases and its unlikely prospects before the Supreme Court. The risk of ruining his state's economy must also have played a part, however.
Smith, 23, is on trial for the rape and killing Jan. 9 of Dr. Kathryn Hinnant, 33, at Bellevue Hospital.
The evidence may be a drop of blood left on a broken windowpane by a burglar, the semen on a vaginal swab from a rape victim, the skin tissue found under the nails of a murdered man.