scape

• IPA^(key): [ˈskeɪp]
• Rhymes: -eɪp

From Latin scāpus, from (Doric) Ancient Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.

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
   • 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.

   • a. 1631 (date written)​, J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, OCLC 1008264503:

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

scape (plural scapes)

1. (archaic) escape
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] 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.

2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:

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

4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

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

Probably imitative.

scape (plural scapes)

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

• EAPCs, EPACs, Space, a-spec, aspec, capes, paces, space

scāpe

1. vocative singular of scāpus

• IPA^(key): [ˈskape]

scape

1. third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of scăpa