To give relief or rest to; to free from pain; to alleviate; to pacify.
Rest from labour; freedom from pain, want, or anxiety; freedom from difficulty; freedom from constraint or formality.
A math. instr. for laying down and measuring angles on paper that have been taken in the field; in anat., a muscle that draws forward any part; in surg., an instr. for drawing extraneous bodies out of a wound. ...