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  • English Word Escaloped Definition Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.
  • English Word Escaloped Definition Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales.
  • English Word Escambio Definition A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.
  • English Word Escapable Definition Avoidable.
  • English Word Escapade Definition The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol.
  • English Word Escapade Definition Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank.
  • English Word Escape Definition To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
  • English Word Escape Definition To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
  • English Word Escape Definition To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
  • English Word Escape Definition To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
  • 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