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Webster 1913 Edition
Scape
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
,Verb.
T.
& I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Scaped
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Scaping
.] [Aphetic form of
escape
.] To escape.
[Obs. or Poetic.]
Milton.
Out of this prison help that we may
scape
. Chaucer.
Scape
,Noun.
1.
An escape.
[Obs.]
I spake of most disastrous chances, . . .
Of hairbreadth
Of hairbreadth
scapes
in the imminent, deadly breach. Shakespeare
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Scape
SCAPE
,Verb.
T.
SCAPE
, n.1.
An escape. [See Escape.]2.
Means of escape; evasion.3.
Freak; aberration; deviation.4.
Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete in all its senses.SCAPE
,Noun.
In botany, a stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus and hyacinth.
Definition 2024
scape
scape
See also: -scape
English
Noun
scape (plural scapes)
- (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
- the basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body)
- the basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape
- (architecture) the shaft of a column
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
Translations
Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape.
Verb
scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)
- (archaic) to escape
- 17th century, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal:
- No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
- As I have seen in one autumnal face.
- Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
- This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.
- 17th century, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal:
Noun
scape (plural scapes)
- (archaic) escape
- Shakespeare
- I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Donne to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- Milton
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- Milton
- (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)