Definition of "scape" in English

noun

1. (botany) A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.

2. The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).

3. The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.

4. (architecture) The shaft of a column.

5. (architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To escape (someone or something).

   • No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.

noun

1. (archaic) Escape.

2. (obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.

3. (obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

4. (obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.

noun

1. The cry of the snipe when flushed.

2. The snipe itself.