Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RAPE, n.¹ [L. rapio, raptus; It. ratto; Fr. rapt; W. rhaib, a snatching; rheibiaw, to snatch. See Rap.]

1. In a general sense, a seizing by violence; also, a seizing and carrying away by force, as females. – Mitford.
2. In law, the carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly and against her will. Blackstone.
3. Privation; the act of seizing or taking away. – Chapman. And ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain. – Sandys.
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. – Sandy.
5. Fruit plucked from the cluster. – Ray.
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. – Blackstone.