Easement

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Easement \Ease"ment\, n. [OF. aisement. See {Ease}, n.]
     1. That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience;
        accommodation.
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              In need of every kind of relief and easement.


                                                    --Burke.
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     2. (Law) A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one
        proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor,
        distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water
        course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls
        servitude. --Kent.
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     3. (Arch.) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of
        direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  easement
       n 1: (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own
            (as using another's land as a right of way to your own
            land)
       2: the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or
          annoyance); "he asked the nurse for relief from the
          constant pain" [syn: {easing}, {alleviation}, {relief}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  71 Moby Thesaurus words for "easement":
     abatement, absolute interest, aid and comfort, allayment,
     alleviation, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthetizing, appeasement,
     assuagement, assurance, benefit, claim, comfort, common,
     condolence, consolation, contingent interest, deadening,
     diminishment, diminution, disburdening, disencumberment, dulling,
     ease, easing, encouragement, equitable interest, equity, estate,
     holding, interest, lessening, lightening, limitation, lulling,
     mitigation, mollification, numbing, palliation, part, percentage,
     reassurance, reduction, relief, remedy, right, right of entry,
     salving, settlement, shred of comfort, softening, solace,
     solacement, soothing, stake, strict settlement, subduement,
     support, sympathy, title, trust, unballasting, unburdening,
     unfreighting, unlading, unloading, unsaddling, untaxing, use,
     vested interest