scape
/ˈskeɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
Example Sentences
- "No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape."
- "He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]"
- "Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends"
- "I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach."
- "Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance."
- "though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape"
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: scāpus, σκᾶπος, scapen
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.