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Scape   /skeɪp/   Listen
noun
Scape  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
2.
(Zool.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
3.
(Arch.)
(a)
The shaft of a column.
(b)
The apophyge of a shaft.


Scape  n.  
1.
An escape. (Obs.) "I spake of most disastrous chances,... Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach."
2.
Means of escape; evasion. (Obs.)
3.
A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. (Obs.) "Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance."
4.
Loose act of vice or lewdness. (Obs.)


verb
Scape  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. scaped; pres. part. scaping)  To escape. (Obs. or Poetic.) "Out of this prison help that we may scape."





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"Scape" Quotes from Famous Books



... he does not say a word against the Privy Counsellor; you and I are the scape-goats; every ...
— The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts • Augustus William Iffland
... us a safe journey. This was done by muttering a few sentences, and spitting upon a stone, which was thrown before us on the road. The same ceremony was repeated three times, after which the Negroes proceeded with the greatest confidence; every one being firmly persuaded that the stone (like the scape-goat) had carried with it every thing that could induce superior powers to ...
— Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa • Mungo Park
... Alas, poor soul! my son, Prince John, my son, With several troops hath circuited the court, This house, the city, that thou canst not 'scape. ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... I shipped on was the Walnut Hills, at $7 per month. You could hear her "scape" (whistle) for a distance of twenty miles on a clear day or night. I would get up early in the morning and make some "five-cent pieces" (there were no nickels in those days) by ...
— Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi • George H. Devol
... man liuing priuie to his departure in regard of his place and charge, and on his honour assured mee his returne shoulde bee verie short and succesfull, I, I, shorter by the necke, thought I, in the meane time let this be thy posie, I liue in hope to scape the rope. ...
— The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton - With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse • Thomas Nash


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