1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

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

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

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.

Scape
n.

1. An escape. [Obs.]

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

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.

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

Webster 1913 Dictionary edited by Patrick J. Cassidy