Scape

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

2. The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.

3. The shaft of a column.

4. The apophyge of a shaft.

Part of speech: noun (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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.