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Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious. Elusive of the bridal day, she gives Fond hopes to all, and all with hopes deceives. Pope. -- E*lu"sive*ly, adv. -- E*lu"sive*ness, n.

responding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen.

A garden plot, usually about half an acre. [Cape Colony]

To escape from; to avoid. [Obs.] He who obeys, destruction shall eschew. Sandys.

The act of espying; notice; discovery. Screened from espial by the jutting cape. Byron.

rom by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. Trench.

To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.

mous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or é-; as, escape, scape, élite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The G…

port (Steam Engine), the opening, in the cylinder or valve, by which the exhaust steam escapes. -- Exhaust purifier (Milling), a machine for sorting grains, or purifying middlings by an exhaust draught. Knight. -- Exhaust steam (Steam Engine), steam which is allowed to escape from the cylinder after having been empl…

To baffie or escape; as, to falsify a blow. Bulter.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape. And to her service bind each living creature Through secret understanding of their feature. Spenser.

A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for ventilation or escape of smoke.

fluences for good and evil believed by the Chinese to attend the natural features of landscape; also, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

rtable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a mode of gilding with an amalgam of gold and quicksilver, the latter metal being driven off afterward by heat. -- Fire gilt (Fine…

The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure. Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter. Matt. xxiv. 20. Fain by flight to save themselves. Shak.

To frisk; to skip; to caper. [Obs. Scot.] "The flisking flies." Gosson.

a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor. Had floated that bell on the Inchcape rock. Southey.