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Pronunciation : Scape
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. scape. Cf. Scepter.]
Definition : 1. (Bot.)

Defn: A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

2. (Zo?l.)

Defn: The long basal joint of the antenn? of an insect.

3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Scape
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Aphetic form of escape.]
Definition : Defn: To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Scape
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913