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Scape [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. An escape. [ See Escape .]

2. Means of escape; evasion.

3. Freak; aberration; deviation.

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete in all its senses.

5. In botany, a stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus and hyacinth.

Scape [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [ See Escape .]

Scape [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

2. The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.

3. The shaft of a column.

4. The apophyge of a shaft.

5. An escape.

6. Means of escape; evasion.

7. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

8. Loose act of vice or lewdness.

Scape [Verb transitive and intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To escape.

Scape-goat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In the Jewish ritual, a goat which was brought to the door of the tabernacle, where the high priest laid his hands upon him, confessing the sins of the people, and putting them on the heat of the goat; after which the goat was sent into the wilderness, bearing the iniquities of the people. Leviticus 16:10 .

Scape-wheel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

Scaped [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Scape

Scapegallows [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

Scapegoat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.

2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.

Scapegrace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless.

Scapeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In botany, destitute of a scape.

Scapeless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Destitute of a scape.

Scapement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The method of communicating the impulse of the wheels to the pendulum of a clock.

Scapement [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Escapement, 3.