From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scape \Scape\, verb (used with an object) & 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scape \Scape\, noun [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. ? 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. (Zo["o]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an insect.
3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apophyge \A*poph"y*ge\, noun [Gr. 'apofygh' escape, in arch. the curve with which the shaft escapes into its base or capital, fr. 'apofey'gein to flee away; 'apo' from + fey'gein to flee: cf. F. apophyge.] (Arch.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the {scape}. --Parker.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip [syn: {flower stalk}]
2: (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column [syn: {shaft}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "scape": Maypole, abscond, airscape, bar, break, breakout, bunk, cityscape, cloudscape, decamp, diorama, exterior, farmscape, flagstaff, flee, flight, fly, getaway, interior, lam, landscape, lookout, outlook, panorama, pastoral, perspective, pole, prospect, riverscape, rod, scene, scenery, scenic view, seapiece, seascape, shaft, sight, skyscape, slip, snowscape, stalk, stem, stick, sweep, tongue, totem pole, townscape, view, vista, waterscape
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Let's see what we can do if we put our heads together.
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