Scape \Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.]

[Aphetic form of escape.]

To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.]

--Milton.

Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Scape \Scape\, n.

1. An escape. [Obs.]

I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. --Shak.

2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.]

--Donne.

3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. --Milton.

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.]

--Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an insect.

3. (Arch.)
   (a) The shaft of a column.
   (b) The apophyge of a shaft.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Apophyge \A*poph"y*ge\, n. [Gr. 'apofygh` escape, in arch. the curve with which the shaft escapes into its base or capital, fr. 'apofey`gein to flee away; 'apo` from + fey`gein to flee: cf. F. apophyge.]

(Arch.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. --Parker.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)