Dictionary entry

Scape (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Scape, n. 1. An escape.

I spake of most disastrous chances,...

Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak.

2. Means of escape; evasion. Donne.

3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton.

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. Shak.