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To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] Milton. Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer.

the wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [Colloq.] Dickens.

ose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

Destitute of a scape.

Same as Escapement, 3.

The common recoil escapement.

lee 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 pictorial aspect of a country. The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay. Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect.

A picture representing a scene at sea. [Jocose] Thackeray.

A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape. [Jocose] Fairholt.

possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

A faucet to allow escape of air.

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

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