relief
re.lief \ri-'le-f\ n [ME, fr. MF, fr. OF, fr. relever] [F] 1: a payment
made by a feudal tenant to his lord upon succeeding to an inhe rited estate
2a: removal or lightening of something oppressive, painful, or distressing
2b: aid in the form of money or necessities for the indigent, aged, or hand
icapped 2c: military assistance in or rescue from a position of extreme
difficulty or encirclement 2d: means of breaking or avoiding monotony or
boredom : DIVERSION 3: release from a post or from the performance of duty
4: one that relieves another from duty by taking his place 5: legal
remedy or redress 6a: a mode of sculpture in which forms and figures are
distinguished from a surrounding plane surface 6b: sculpture or a
sculptural form executed in this mode 6c: projecting detail, ornament, or
figures 7a: the suggestion in pictorial art of spatial dimensions and
relations 7b: sharpness of outline due to contrast 8: the elevations or
inequalities of a land surface