Noah Webster
Scape
SCAPE, verb transitive To escape; a contracted word, not now used except in poetry, and with a mark of elision. [See Escape.]
SCAPE, noun
1. An escape. [See Escape.]
2. Means of escape; evasion.
3. Freak; aberration; deviation.
4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obsolete in all its senses.
SCAPE, noun [Latin scopus; probably allied to scipio, and the Gr. scepter.]
In botany, a stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus and hyacinth.