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What does "scape" mean?

Scape: (Zoöl.) The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.

Additional senses

  1. 2.(Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft.
  2. 3.To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.
  3. 4.An escape. [Obs.] I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak.
  4. 5.Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] Donne.
  5. 6.A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.] Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton.
  6. 7.Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] Shak.

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