easement

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}, {easement}, {alleviation}, {relief}]
    

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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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