scape
Noun
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Noun
scape (plural scapes)
- (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root.
- The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
- The basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape.
- (architecture) The shaft of a column.
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
scape (scapes, present participle scaping; past and past participle scaped)
- (archaic) to escape
- c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)
- 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.
- c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)
scape (plural scapes)
- (archaic) escape
- c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:
- I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
- (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce:
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
scape (plural scapes)
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