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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.

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