[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scape \scape\, v. t.  i. imp.  p. p. scaped; p. pr.  vb.
   n. scaping. aphetic form of escape.
   to escape. obs. or poetic. --milton.
   1913 webster

         out of this prison help that we may scape. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
scaped scaping 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scape \scape\, n.
   1. an escape. obs.
      1913 webster

            i spake of most disastrous chances, . . .
            of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly
            breach.                               --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. means of escape; evasion. obs. --donne.
      1913 webster

   3. a freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. obs.
      1913 webster

            not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and
            ignorance.                            --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. loose act of vice or lewdness. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

scape \scape\, n. l. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. gr. ? a
   staff: cf. f. scape. cf. scepter.
   1. bot. a peduncle rising from the ground or from a
      subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the
      bloodroot, and the like.
      1913 webster

   2. zool. the long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
      1913 webster

   3. arch.
      a the shaft of a column.
      b the apophyge of a shaft.
          1913 webster
see also:
scepter 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

apophyge \apoph"yge\, n. gr. 'apofygh` escape, in arch. the
   curve with which the shaft escapes into its base or capital,
   fr. 'apofey`gein to flee away; 'apo` from + fey`gein to flee:
   cf. f. apophyge. arch.
   the small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the
   shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the
   fillet; -- called also the scape. --parker.
   1913 webster
see also:
scape 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

scape
     n 1: erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground
          as in a tulip syn: flower stalk
     2: architecture upright consisting of the vertical part of a
        column syn: shaft
see also:
flower stalk shaft 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

50 moby thesaurus words for "scape":
   maypole, abscond, airscape, bar, break, breakout, bunk, cityscape,
   cloudscape, decamp, diorama, exterior, farmscape, flagstaff, flee,
   flight, fly, getaway, interior, lam, landscape, lookout, outlook,
   panorama, pastoral, perspective, pole, prospect, riverscape, rod,
   scene, scenery, scenic view, seapiece, seascape, shaft, sight,
   skyscape, slip, snowscape, stalk, stem, stick, sweep, tongue,
   totem pole, townscape, view, vista, waterscape

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