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Scape
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- 1 A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
- 2 Escape. archaic
"I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach."
- 3 The cry of the snipe when flushed.
- 4 (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column wordnet
- 5 The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
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- 6 A means of escape; evasion. obsolete
- 7 The snipe itself.
- 8 erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip wordnet
- 9 The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
- 10 A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. obsolete
"Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance."
- 11 The shaft of a column.
- 12 A loose act of vice or lewdness. obsolete
"though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape"
- 13 The apophyge of a shaft.
- 1 To escape (someone or something). archaic, transitive
"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."
Etymology
From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
Probably imitative.
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