subs. (old).—1. A cheat.
1597. JOSEPH HALL, Satires, III. 1.
| Was there no plaining of the brewer’s SCAPE, | |
| Nor greedy vintner mixt the strainèd grape. |
d. 1634. CHAPMAN, Homer, Hymn to Apollo.
| Crafty mate, | |
| What other ’SCAPE canst thou excogitate? |
2. (old).—A fart.
1611. COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Pet. A SCAPE, tayle-shot, or cracke.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Pettare. To let a SCAPE or a fart.
3. (old).—An act, or effect, of fornication.
1594. SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece, 749. For day, quoth she, night’s SCAPES doth open lay. Ibid. (1604), Winter’s Tale, iii. 3, 73. Sure some SCAPE: though I am not bookish, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the SCAPE.
Verb. (artists’).—‘To neglect one’s brush’ (BEE).
