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Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

Amice, a hood or cape. See 2d Amice.

A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.

Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper. And fraught with antics as the Indian bird That writhes and chatters in her wiry cage. Wordsworth.

he shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

son to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.

t of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

cies of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

A ratchet-shaped scape wheel, which in some watches is acted upon by the axis of the balance wheel proper (in those watches called a balance).

and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Jules Dupré, and Diaz. Associated with them are certain painters of animals, as Troyon and Jaque, and of peasant life, as Millet and Jules Breton.

y, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped.

A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible. Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay. Dryden. The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts. I. Taylor