scape

See also: -scape

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin scāpus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (Doric) σκᾶπος (skâpos).

Noun

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.

Translations

leafless stalk

• Czech: stvol (cs) m
• Esperanto: skapo
• Finnish: vana (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kōrari
• Romanian: scap (ro) m

basal segment of antenna

• Finnish: varsi (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Etymology 2

Formed by aphesis from escape.

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Verb

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.

Noun

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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Etymology 3

Probably imitative.

Noun

scape (plural scapes)

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scape”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• EPACs, Space, capes, paces, space

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) scāpe

1. vocative singular of scāpus