SCAPE, verb transitive To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [See Escape.] SCAPE, noun 1. An escape. [See Escape.] 2. Means of escape; evasion. 3. Freak; aberration; deviation. 4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete in all its senses. SCAPE, noun [Latin scopus; probably allied to scipio, and the Gr. scepter.] In botany, a stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus and hyacinth.
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