odontographic (medicine) and relief(1) (iou)

odontographic (medicine)

odontographic

Of or pertaining to odontography.

Source: Websters Dictionary

relief noun1. ME.
[Anglo-Norman relef, Old & mod. French relief, from relever RELIEVE.]
Law. A payment made to the overlord by the heir of a feudal tenant on taking up possession of the vacant estate. (obsolete exc. Scot.) ME.
The alleviation of or deliverance from pain, distress, anxiety, monotony, etc.; the feeling accompanying this; mental relaxation. Also, an instance of this. LME.
L. M. Montgomery It would be a relief to sit down and have a good cry. R. Dahl Mrs Pratchett was alive! The relief was tremendous. J. Briggs To her great relief she..had not been sent back to school. R. Dinnage Some just hoped for relief from misery.
b. A thing providing such alleviation; a feature which breaks up visual or Other monotony. E18.
comic relief: see COMIC adjective.
H. Martineau A clump of beeches..were a relief to the eye.
Assistance given to a person or persons in circumstances of need, danger, war, famine, or Other difficulty; aid, help, succour; spec. financial and Other assistance given to the poor from State or local community funds. LME.
relief agency, relief organization, relief work, relief worker, etc. on relief (chiefly US) receiving State assistance because of (financial) need.
Shakespeare Henry V To relief of lazars and weak age..A hundred alms-houses. Goldsmith Prudence once more comes to my relief. A. Lewis He got..the dole and then parish relief. Sunday Telegraph School-children are to be asked to contribute money for famine relief.
b. Reinforcement or military support to those besieged or threatened; esp. the raising of a siege of a besieged town etc. M16.
Gibbon Stilicho..advanced..to the relief of the faithful city. P. Warner He built two temporary wooden forts to cut off the castle from any external relief.
c. A fresh supply of some article of Food or drink. L16-E18.
Hunting. The seeking of Food by a hare or deer. LME-M17.
Law. Release from or remission of an obligation or imposition; spec. (Scot.) a right to reimbursement of the expenses incurred by some obligation. L15.
Release from some occupation or post; spec. the replacement of a person or persons on duty by another or others. E16.
in relief Baseball as relief pitcher.
b. A person or body of people relieving another or others in this way; esp. a soldier or body of soldiers relieving another soldier or company on guard. E18.
P. Matthiessen My relief on bow watch..failed to appear.
c. A dish succeeding another. Now rare. L18.
d. A thing supplementing another in providing a service; esp. a train, bus, etc., providing an extra service at peak times. Usu. attrib. L19.
D. Lodge The coach had broken down..and a relief vehicle had taken an hour to arrive. Railway Magazine The 6.59 p.m...operated..as a relief to the 7.10 p.m. from Hastings.
Alleviation of some pain, burden, etc., esp. taxation; spec. (a) remission of income tax due on a proportion of earned income. E16.
P. O'Donnell If it's a phony charity account..they probably get tax relief. Money & Family Wealth Make full use of reliefs and allowances..at..current income tax rates.
(Relief.) A Scottish Presbyterian Church founded in 1761 in protest against the General Assembly and later amalgamated in the United Presbyterian Church. Chiefly as Relief Church, Church of Relief obsolete exc. Hist. M18.
Comb.: Relief Church: see sense 8 above; relief pitcher Baseball: who relieves another pitcher, spec. the opening pitcher, in a match; relief road: designed to divert traffic from congested areas; relief roll US a list of people receiving State relief; relief valve: serving to relieve excess pressure in a system; relief well: drilled to intersect an oil or gas well so as to provide a route for water or mud to stop a fire or blow-out.
reliefer noun a person receiving financial relief M20.
reliefless adjective E18.

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