Escape \Es*cape"\, v. i. 1. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind?? --Keble.
2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life. --Macaulay.
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.
To escape out of these meshes. --Thackeray.
Escape \Es*cape"\, 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.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. --Ps. lv. 8.
2. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. [Obs.]
I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former escapes. --Burton.
3. A sally. ``Thousand escapes of wit.'' --Shak.
4. (Law) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
5. (Bot.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Note: 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.
5. (Arch.) An apophyge.
6. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
7. (Elec.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
{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.
Escape \Es*cape"\, 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.
2. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
They escaped the search of the enemy. --Ludlow.
Hundreds of Serbs have reportedly taken refuge in an army barracks in Petrinja, about 25 miles south of the Croatia'a capital of Zagreb, to escape riot police seeking to recover weapons.
The driver ran into a police station to escape the crowd that pursued him, but enraged citizens stormed the station, dragged him out and beat him unconscious, the state radio reported.
Brian J. Luedtke, a technical analyst at Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Minneapolis, said he believes investors need further evidence about the economy's direction before the market will be able to escape from its recent malaise.
Robert Nance, 43, of Huntington, was convicted Aug. 1 for conspiring to kill a federal witness, attempting to kill witnesses and a jail escape charge.
In the last 13 years there has been one escape.
On Sunday, he co-authored a piece alleging that Mr. Maxwell planned to fake his death and escape with millions siphoned from his empire.
It was not immediately known whether he was linked to the planned escape.
However, the legislation gives the secretary an escape clause by which he can avoid holding such talks; Treasury Secretary James Baker, who opposes a debt facility strongly, is expected to use that mechanism.
They were caught by the State Security while trying to escape being dragooned into the Sandinista army in October 1983.
One prisoner who failed to escape was found hanging from the window and three others were outside their cells.
The diplomats said they did not want to specify the route taken in order to avoid cutting off the possible escape of others.
Nollan suggests that this line of escape may not be wide open.
Prosecutors said McGivern, Culhane and inmate Robert Bowerman tried to escape from a car while being transported for a court appearance.
He talks of beatings and of months blindfolded in solitary confinement for twice trying to escape.
U.S. citizens who want to escape from Kuwait by crossing the desert receive daily words of caution by radio from the State Department.
But critics of the amendment said the changes envisioned by Nickels would allow polluters in some cases to obtain permits that would allow them to escape some provisions of the new law.
The Greggs said they heard the intruders on the other side of their locked bedroom door but managed to escape via a side door.
After his second escape he spent eight years hiding from the law. At least part of that time he lived in New York's Bronx borough, where he was arrested on separate assault charges in 1974.
Vertullo was charged with burglary, possessing instruments of crime, criminal mischief, attempted escape, resisting arrest and conspiracy.
Will it take that long this time? The government is confident the economy will escape the need for root-and-branch reform, largely because it is engaged in an ambitious effort to shore it up.
U.S. chief delegate Morris B. Abram told delegates that more than 20,000 people had fled Romania in the past 18 months to escape political and economic repression.
We saw about 100 who had managed to escape.
"We have information that some folks are trying to help the kids escape out of state," he said.
It said the four planned to escape July 6, assuming that on the day of Mexico's national elections, security would be lax.
Small business doesn't escape here either, because of the soaring cost of liability insurance.
U.S. District Judge William Stafford sentenced Werner Bruchhausen, 49, to 30-month concurrent sentences Thursday on each of two counts of conspiracy to escape.
Very few do. Most risked their lives to escape.
You cannot escape themes these days.
Great Western Bank, the nation's second-largest healthy thrift, unveiled a bold attempt to escape from the insolvent Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. and switch into the healthier Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Bono has said he began coming to Palm Springs, 110 miles east of Los Angeles, 14 years ago to escape the big-city craziness of Los Angeles.