Rape, v. t. To commit rape upon; to
ravish.
To rape and ren. See under Rap,
v. t., to snatch.
Rape (rāp), n. [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.
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.]
Rape, v. i. To rob; to
pillage. [Obs.] Heywood.
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, n. [L. rapa, rapum,
akin to Gr. "ra`pys, "ra`fys, G.
rübe.] (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.
☞ 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.