Found 2 items, similar to Scape.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: scape 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Scape 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] 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] 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. (Zo["o]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an insect. [1913 Webster] 3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft. [1913 Webster]