Scape (?), n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. 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.
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Scape, v. 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.
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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.
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