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scape

1  [skeyp]
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–noun
1. Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
2. Zoology. a stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather.
3. Architecture. the shaft of a column.
4. Entomology. the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L scāpus stalk < Doric Gk skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter
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2  [skeyp]
–noun, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), scaped, scap⋅ing. Archaic.
escape.
Also, 'scape.

-scape

 
a combining form extracted from landscape, denoting “an extensive view, scenery,” or “a picture or representation” of such a view, as specified by the initial element: cityscape; moonscape; seascape.
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scape 1   (skāp)   
n.  
  1. Botany A leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground, as in the tulip.
  2. Biology A stalklike part, such as a feather shaft or a segment of an insect's antenna.
  3. Architecture The shaft of a column.

[Latin scāpus, stalk, perhaps from Greek skāpos.]
scape 2   (skāp)   
v.   & n. Archaic
Variant of escape.
scape 3   (skāp)   
n.  A scene; a view. Often used in combination: seascape; mindscape.

[From landscape.]
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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.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an insect.

3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.

Scape

Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.] [Aphetic form of escape.] To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton.

Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.

Scape

Scape\, n. 1. An escape. [Obs.]

I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. --Shak.

2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] --Donne.

3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. --Milton.

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] --Shak.
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scape  (n.)
"scenery view," 1773, abstracted from landscape (q.v.); as a new comb. element, first attested use is 1796, in prisonscape.

scape  (v.)
c.1275, aphetic form of escape; frequent in prose till late 17c.
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