scape

Noun
Synonyms: flower stalkshaft

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulipSynonyms: flower stalk
  2. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a columnSynonyms: shaft
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

2.(Zool.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect. [1913 Webster]

3.(Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft. [1913 Webster]

Scape \Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Scaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping.] [Aphetic form of escape.] To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Scape \Scape\, n.

1.An escape. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] --Donne. [1913 Webster]

3.A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

4.Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
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