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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Botany A leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground, as in the tulip.
2. n. Biology A stalklike part, such as a feather shaft or a segment of an insect's antenna.
3. n. Architecture The shaft of a column.
4. v. Archaic Variant of escape.
5. n. A scene; a view. Often used in combination: seascape; mindscape.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To escape.
2. n. An escape.
3. n. Means of escape; evasion.
4. n. Freak; aberration; deviation; escapade; misdemeanor; trick; cheat.
5. n. In botany, a radical peduncle or stem bearing the fructification without leaves, as in the narcissus, primrose, hepatica, stemless violets, hyacinth, etc. See also cuts under jonquil and puttyroot. Also scapus.
6. n. In entomology: The basal joint of an antenna, especially when it is long and slender, as in the geniculate antennæ of many hymenopters and coleopters, or the two proximal joints, as in dipters, generally small and different from the others. The stem-like basal portion of the halter or poiser of a dipter. When these two joints are quite separate, the basal one becomes the bulbus, leaving the name scape for the next one.
7. n. In ornithology, the shaft or stem of a feather; a rachis; a scapus.
8. n. In architecture, the apophyge or spring of a column; the part where a column springs from its base, usually molded into a concave sweep or cavetto.
9. n. The cry of the snipe when flushed.
10. n. The snipe itself.

Wiktionary

1. n. botany a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
2. n. the lowest part of an insect's antenna
3. n. architecture the shaft of a column
4. v. archaic to escape
5. n. archaic escape.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
2. n. (Zoöl.) The long basal joint of the antennæ of an insect.
3. n. The shaft of a column.
4. n. The apophyge of a shaft.
5. v. Obs. or Poetic. To escape.
6. n. obsolete An escape.
7. n. obsolete Means of escape; evasion.
8. n. obsolete A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
9. n. obsolete Loose act of vice or lewdness.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. erect leafless flower stalk growing directly from the ground as in a tulip
2. n. (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column