Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Scape \Scape\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Scaped}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Scaping}.] [Aphetic form of escape.]
   To escape. [Obs. or Poetic.] --Milton.

         Out of this prison help that we may scape. --Chaucer.

Scape \Scape\, n.
   1. An escape. [Obs.]

            I spake of most disastrous chances, . . . Of
            hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. Means of escape; evasion. [Obs.] --Donne.

   3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [Obs.]

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

   4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] --Shak.

Scape \Scape\, n. [L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. ? a
   staff: cf. F. scape. Cf. {Scepter}.]
   1. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a
      subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the
      bloodroot, and the like.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) The long basal joint of the antenn[ae] of an
      insect.

   3. (Arch.)
      (a) The shaft of a column.
      (b) The apophyge of a shaft.

Source : WordNet®

scape
     n 1: erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground
          as in a tulip [syn: {flower stalk}]
     2: (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a
        column [syn: {shaft}]