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flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak.

The act of escaping; escape. [R.]

One who escapes.

The common recoil escapement.

A faucet to allow escape of air.

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

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

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

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

Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

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

ity, 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

etreat, etc. -- Beat of a watch, or clock, the stroke or sound made by the action of the escapement. A clock is in beat or out of beat, according as the strokes is at equal or unequal intervals.

To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade. The wail of famine in beleaguered towns. Longfellow.

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a…

oldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To tal…