Scape

v. t. or i. [imp. & p. p. SCAPED (skāpt); p. pr. & vb. n. SCAPING.] To get away, or away from; to escape. [Obs. or poet.] Milton.

n. [Obs.] 1. An escape. I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of hair-breadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak.

2Sense 2. Means of escape; evasion. Donne.

3Sense 3. Freak; aberration; deviation; slip; fault. “Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.” Milton.

4Sense 4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. Shak.

n. [Fr. scape, It. scapo, Sp. escapo, Lat. scapus, Gr. σκᾶπος, σκῆπος, σκῆπτρον.]

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

2Sense 2. (Arch.) (a.) The shaft of a column. (b.) The apophyge of a shaft. Oxf. Gloss.