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- English Word Escape Definition To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
- English Word Escape Definition The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
- English Word Escape Definition That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
- English Word Escape Definition A sally.
- English Word Escape Definition The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
- English Word Escape Definition An apophyge.
- English Word Escape Definition Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
- English Word Escape Definition Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
- English Word Escaped Definition of Escape
- English Word Escapement Definition The act of escaping; escape.
- English Word Escapement Definition Way of escape; vent.
- English Word Escapement Definition The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
- English Word Escaper Definition One who escapes.
- English Word Escaping Definition of Escape
- English Word Escarbuncle Definition See Carbuncle, 3.
- English Word Escargatoire Definition A nursery of snails.
- English Word Escarp Definition The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.
- English Word Escarp Definition To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap.
- English Word Escarped Definition of Escarp
- English Word Escarping Definition of Escarp