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noun

Scape n.

(Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

(Zool.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.

(Arch.)

(a)

The shaft of a column.

(b)

The apophyge of a shaft.

Scape n.

An escape. (Obs.) "I spake of most disastrous chances,... Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach."

Means of escape; evasion. (Obs.)

A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. (Obs.) "Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance."

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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Etymology of 'Scape'

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"Scape" Quotes from Famous Books

... subject to work a scape upon; thou shalt o'en change clothes with him, and leave ...

— The Puritain Widow • William Shakespeare [Apocrypha]

... With each; and on the neck of each, draped fair A scarf of saffron, patched; and, 'twixt the eyes, In saffron stamped, the Name of mysteries OM; and the Swastika, with secrets rife How man may 'scape the dire deceits ...

— In The Yule-Log Glow--Book 3 - Christmas Poems from 'round the World • Various

... and all the iniquities of the children of Israel confessed over him, was to be sent into the wilderness and loosed. The former goat is called "a sin offering for the people." The latter is called "a scape goat to make an atonement with the Lord." The blood of the sin offering could not have been supposed to be a substitute purchasing the pardon of men's offences, because there is no hint of any such idea ...

— The Destiny of the Soul - A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life • William Rounseville Alger

... every prayer and gave as the summary of all: "Give me, ye Gods, what I deserve"—Doiete moi ta opheilomena. The Christian's comment on this would be in the words of Hamlet's reply to Polonius: "God's bodkin, man! use every man after his desert and who should 'scape whipping?" ...

— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton

... quarter-acre from the land- scape. With it burst Tommy's carrots, and we watched them, and in whispers prayed and cursed. Then a wail of anguish 'scaped us. Boomed in Porky's cabbage plot A detestable ...

— 'Hello, Soldier!' - Khaki Verse • Edward Dyson

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