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n.
A protection force accompanying ships, etc., on their way from place to place, by sea or land; an escort, for protection or guidance.
n.
An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.
n.
To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
n.
A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.
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n.
A man who escorts, or pays attentions to, a lady; an escort; a lover.
v. t.
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
n.
The act of attending for defense; the state of being so attended; protection; escort.
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To accompany for protection, either by sea or land; to attend for protection; to escort; as, a frigate convoys a merchantman.
n.
Convoy; escort; guard; guide.
v. t.
To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.
n.
A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
n.
Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
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To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend.
v. t.
To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.
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