scape

From Latin scāpus, from Ancient Greek (Doric) σκᾶπος (skâpos).

scape (plural scapes)

1. (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
2. the basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body)
3. the basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape
4. (architecture) the shaft of a column
5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

Formed by aphesis from escape.

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scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)

1. (archaic) to escape
   • 17th century, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal:

     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.

scape (plural scapes)

1. (archaic) escape
   • Shakespeare

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

2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.

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3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
   • Milton

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

4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

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Probably imitative.

scape (plural scapes)

1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
2. The snipe itself.

• Space, capes, paces, space

scape

1. vocative singular of scapus