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. (Bot.) A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cap, fr. It. capo head, cape, fr. L. caput heat, end, point. See Chief. ] A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cape buffalo (Zool.) a large and powerful buffalo of South Africa (Bubalus Caffer). It is said to be the most dangerous wild beast of Africa. See Buffalo, 2. --
Cape jasmine,
Cape jessamine. See Jasmine. --
Cape pigeon (Zool.), a petrel (Daptium Capense) common off the Cape of Good Hope. It is about the size of a pigeon. --
Cape wine, wine made in South Africa [ Eng. ] --
The Cape, the Cape of Good Hope, in the general sense of the southern extremity of Africa. Also used of Cape Horn, and, in New England, of Cape Cod. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Naut.) To head or point; to keep a course; as, the ship capes southwest by south. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. Cape, fr. F. cape; cf. LL. cappa. See Cap, and cf. 1st Cope, Chape. ] A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Gape. ] To gape. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Capelin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. capelan, caplan. ] (Zool.) Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonidæ, now within the smelt family Osmeridae: Mallotus villosus, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska; or Mallotus catervarius, found in the North Pacific. The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod. [ Written also capelan and caplin. ] [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

☞ This fish, which is like a smelt, is called by the Spaniards anchova, and by the Portuguese capelina. However the anchovy used as a food is a different fish. Fisheries of U. S. (1884). [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

‖n. [ F., fr. LL. capella. See Chapel. ] (Med.) A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a little goat, dim. of caper a goat. ] (Asrton.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chaplain. ] The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G. ] (Mus.) The private orchestra or band of a prince or of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. capelet. ] (Far.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ G., fr. capelle chapel, private band of a prince + meister a master. ] The musical director in a royal or ducal chapel; a choir-master. [ Written also kapellmeister. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Capered p. pr. & vb. n. capering. ] [ From older capreoll to caper, cf. F. se cabrer to prance; all ultimately fr. L. caper, capra, goat. See Capriole. ] To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. [ 1913 Webster ]

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cut a caper, to frolic; to make a sportive spring; to play a prank. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. kaper. ] A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. câpre, fr. L. capparis, Gr. &unr_;; cf. Ar. & Per. al-kabar. ] 1. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Capparis; -- called also caper bush, caper tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Capparis spinosa is a low prickly shrub of the Mediterranean coasts, with trailing branches and brilliant flowers; -- cultivated in the south of Europe for its buds. The Capparis sodada is an almost leafless spiny shrub of central Africa (Soudan), Arabia, and southern India, with edible berries. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bean caper. See Bran caper, in the Vocabulary. --
Caper sauce, a kind of sauce or catchup made of capers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. [ Gael, capulcoile. ] (Zool.) A species of black Old World grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods and horse of the wood. [ Written also capercaillie, capercaili. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse. [ Obs. ] Birch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nimble caperer on the cord. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }See Capper, a plant, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a European weed (Hypochaeris radicata) widely naturalized in North America, having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears.
Syn. -- cat's-ear, cat's ear, California dandelion, gosmore. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. [ Cape, from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa + weed. ] a type of low-growing, creeping plant (Arctotheca calendulaceae), used as a ground cover in warm climates. RHUD [ PJC ]

{ , n. [ Icel. kapall; cf. L. caballus. ] A horse; a nag. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ Pg., serpent of the hood. ] (Zool.) The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Escaped p. pr. & vb. n. Escaping. ] [ OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper, eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d Cape, and cf. Scape, v. ] 1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. “Sailors that escaped the wreck.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

They escaped the search of the enemy. Ludlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind&unr_;&unr_; Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sally. “Thousand escapes of wit.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

☞ Escape is technically distinguishable from prison breach, which is the unlawful departure of the prisoner from custody, escape being the permission of the departure by the custodian, either by connivance or negligence. The term escape, however, is applied by some of the old authorities to a departure from custody by stratagem, or without force. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) An apophyge. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Elec.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Escape pipe (Steam Boilers), a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve. --
Escape valve (Steam Engine), a relief valve; a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety. --
Escape wheel (Horol.), the wheel of an escapement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. échappement. See Escape. ] 1. The act of escaping; escape. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Way of escape; vent. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Escapements are of several kinds, as the vertical, or verge, or crown, escapement, formerly used in watches, in which two pallets on the balance arbor engage with a crown wheel; the anchor escapement, in which an anchor-shaped piece carries the pallets; -- used in common clocks (both are called recoil escapements, from the recoil of the escape wheel at each vibration); the cylinder escapement, having an open-sided hollow cylinder on the balance arbor to control the escape wheel; the duplex escapement, having two sets of teeth on the wheel; the lever escapement, which is a kind of detached escapement, because the pallets are on a lever so arranged that the balance which vibrates it is detached during the greater part of its vibration and thus swings more freely; the detent escapement, used in chronometers; the remontoir escapement, in which the escape wheel is driven by an independent spring or weight wound up at intervals by the clock train, -- sometimes used in astronomical clocks. When the shape of an escape-wheel tooth is such that it falls dead on the pallet without recoil, it forms a deadbeat escapement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who escapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) The minimum velocity at which an object must be moving in order for it to overcome the gravitational attraction of a massive celestial body, such as the earth or the sun, and escape beyond its gravitational field into free space. The velocity is calculated as though attained instantaneously at the surface of the celestial body, and is pointed directly away from its center, and neglecting effects of atmospheric friction. Rockets, which accelerate gradually and are moving rapidly at a high altitude when their fuel is exhausted or their engines shut off, may escape even if moving slightly slower at that point than the surface escape velocity. Compare orbital velocity. [ PJC ]

☞ The escape velocity at the surface of the earth is 11.2 km/sec (25, 100 miles per hour), at the moon's surface is 2.4 km/sec, and at the sun's surface is 617.7 km/sec. The escape velocity is calculated as:

Ve = 2Rg

where R is the radius of the celestial body and g is the acceleration due to the gravitational field at its surface. The peculiar chracteristic of a black hole is that the escape velocity at its “surface” (called its “event horizon”) is greater than the speed of light. Therefore nothing, not even light, may escape from it. Dict. Sci. Tech. [ PJC ]

n. The rotating wheel in an escapement mechanism which has notches that are periodically engaged and disengaged by the anchor. [ PJC ]

n., or . A kind of full sleeveless cape, fitting closely about the neck.

Robert's wind-blown head and tall form wrapped in an Inverness cape. Mrs. Humphry Ward. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Formerly written also landskip. ] [ D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See Land, and -schip. ] 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The pictorial aspect of a country. [ 1913 Webster ]

The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. scapus shaft, stem, stalk; cf. Gr. &unr_; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) (a) The shaft of a column. (b) The apophyge of a shaft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Scaped p. pr. & vb. n. Scaping. ] [ Aphetic form of escape. ] To escape. [ Obs. or Poetic. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Out of this prison help that we may scape. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An escape. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I spake of most disastrous chances, . . .
Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Means of escape; evasion. [ Obs. ] Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Loose act of vice or lewdness. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Scape (for escape) + goat. ] 1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. Lev. xvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Destitute of a scape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Scape, v., Escapement. ] Same as Escapement, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Horol.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Landscape. ] A picture representing a scene at sea. Compare landscape. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + cape. ] To remove a cap or cape from. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]