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A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

main body. Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape. Jowett (Thucyd.).

ranges, generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves. -- Mountain cock (Zoöl.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie. -- Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture. -- Mountain crystal. See under Crystal. -- Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus Simaruba (S. amarga) g…

May; can. "Thou mow now escapen." [Obs.] Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. Chaucer.

A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.

t of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

ear; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority. Dryden.

only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.

whole plant has a warm pungent flavor, and the fleshy fruits are used as a substitute for capers, while the leaves and flowers are sometimes used in salads.

So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape.

A promontory; a cape; a headland. Hakluyt.

to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing.

concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan. -- Occult qualities, those qualities whose effects only were observed, b…

ferent tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land. -- To be off. (a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a moment's warning. (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.] -- To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go…

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

finitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God. -- Om*nis"cient*ly, adv. For what can scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient Milton.

Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.

by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.

To pass, or escape, while dreaming. "To oultdream dangers." Beau. & Fl.