Scape

/ˈskeɪp/ · noun

Meaning

(botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure..

Definitions by Sense

1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
3. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
4. (architecture) The shaft of a column.
5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
6. (transitive, archaic) To escape (someone or something).
7. (archaic) Escape.
8. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.

Example Sentences

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.

He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]

Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends

I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.

though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape

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• scapes
• scaping
• scaped

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