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Webster 1913 Edition


Scape

Scape

,
Noun.
[L.
scapus
shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. [GREEK] a staff: cf. F.
scape
. Cf.
Scepter
.]
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
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.
To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [See Escape.]

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.
[L. scopus; probably allied to scipio, and the Gr. scepter.]
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)

  1. (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
  2. the basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body)
  3. the basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape
  4. (architecture) the shaft of a column
  5. (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)

  1. (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.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

  1. (archaic) escape
    • Shakespeare
      I spake of most disastrous chances, [] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
  2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Donne to this entry?)
  3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
    • Milton
      Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
  4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Anagrams


Latin

Noun

scape

  1. vocative singular of scapus