Category:Scape

Scape, n. Etym: [l. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. scape. Cf. Scepter.]

1. (bot.)

Defn: a peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, As in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

2. (zoöl.)

Defn: the long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.

3. (arch.) (a) the shaft of a column. (b) the apophyge of a shaft.

Scape Scape, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.] Etym: [aphetic form of escape.]

Defn: to escape. [obs. or poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

Scape Scape, n.

1. An escape. [obs.] I spake of most disastrous chances,. . . Of hairbreadth scapes in The imminent, deadly breach. Shak.

2. Means of escape; evasion. [obs.] Donne.

3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [obs.] Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton.

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [obs.] Shak.