scape - What does it mean?
'scape' hits on the web
You may have been searching for a specific social media @scape profile or the tag #scape
Definition of 'scape'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
the lowest part of an insect's antenna
(architecture) the shaft of a column
(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape .
(etystub)
Verb
(scap)
(archaic) to escape
*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
*: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
( en-noun)
(archaic) escape
* Shakespeare
- I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
- (Donne)
(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
* Milton
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
- (Shakespeare)
( Webster 1913)
Anagrams
*
*
*
----
Similar to 'scape'sieve, safe, save, shape, sheave, skive, swipe, swive, shave, scope, shove, suave, skype, syboe, shive, spae, shoppe, scopie, shippe, supe, sipe, swyve, soapie, sope, scobe, saphie, shope, shife, sophie, spue, sheepe, shappe, skeeve, swype, swape, scove, spahee, seave, skyfie, shavee
|