scape /ˈskeɪp/noun 11verb 1forms 3 noun11 •A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure. •The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body). •The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect. •The shaft of a column. •The snipe itself. •The cry of the snipe when flushed. •The apophyge of a shaft. •(no longer used) Escape.I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. — 1603 •(no longer used) A means of escape; evasion. •(no longer used) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. — 1643 •(no longer used) A loose act of vice or lewdness.though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape — 1610 verb1 •(no longer used) 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. — 1600 formsscaped · scaping · scapes
