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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



... of LIES, A gallant people's glowing sympathies:— You cannot hide your idol God from them, When prone you kiss its garment's nether hem:— You cannot waste their treasure on a cause, That boldly violates their guardian laws; And 'scape the arrows from their quiver hurl'd— The keen reproach, and hisses of the world. You may cry 'GUILTY!' but the umpire land Cancels the verdict with indignant hand, Reveres the NOBLE MANY who uphold ...
— The Ghost of Chatham; A Vision - Dedicated to the House of Peers • Anonymous
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... shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits strayed, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And even ...
— English Poets of the Eighteenth Century • Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum
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... three or four times, or blow your nose till it smart again, to recover your memory. When you come to be a president in criminal causes, if you smile upon a prisoner, hang him; but if you frown upon him and threaten him, let him be sure to scape the gallows. ...
— The Duchess of Malfi • John Webster
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... Sin's long labyrinth had run, Nor made atonement when he did amiss, Had sighed to many, though he loved but one, And that loved one, alas, could ne'er be his. Ah, happy she! to 'scape from him whose kiss Had been pollution unto aught so chaste; Who soon had left her charms for vulgar bliss, And spoiled her goodly lands to gild his waste, Nor calm domestic peace ...
— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron
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... age between himself and others. The great rotary presses in the basement of the Record building had filled him with a new enthusiasm: he had painted there, and Sir James had bought at sight, what he called a machinery-scape in the ...
— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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