Scape
Scape , noun
[Latin scapus shaft, stem, stalk; compare Greek {not transcribed} a staff: compare French scape. Compare Scepter.]
1.
(Botany) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
2.
(Zoology) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
3.
(a) (Architecture) The shaft of a column.
(b)
(Architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
Scape , verb, transitive and intransitive
[Aphetic form of escape.]
To escape. [Obsolete or Poetic.] — Milton
Out of this prison help that we may scape.
Scape , noun
1.
An escape. [Obsolete]
I spake of most disastrous chances,...
Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
2.
Means of escape; evasion. [Obsolete] — Donne
3.
A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obsolete]
Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
4.
Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare