scape
See also: -scape
English
Etymology 1
From Latin scāpus, from Ancient Greek (Doric) σκᾶπος (skâpos).
Noun
scape (plural scapes)
- (botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
- the basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body)
- the basal part of the ovipositor of an insect, more specifically known as the oviscape
- (architecture) the shaft of a column
- (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
Translations
leafless stalk
Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape.
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Verb
scape (third-person singular simple present scapes, present participle scaping, simple past and past participle scaped)
- (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.
- 17th century, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal:
Noun
scape (plural scapes)
- (archaic) escape
- Shakespeare
- I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- Shakespeare
- (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of John Donne to this entry?)
- (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
- Milton
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- Milton
- (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Etymology 3
Probably imitative.
Noun
scape (plural scapes)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
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