The scape is the flowering stalk found on members of the Allium family (onions, leeks, chives and garlic). From Wordnik.com. [Mount Vernon News] Reference
Hardneck garlic developes an impressive flowering stalk, called a scape, which can grow from 24 to 48 inches in height. From Wordnik.com. [Garlic Scapes] Reference
The goat called scape, which comes out after every Scotland defeat will comedown hard on Caldwell, McManus, Brown, Hartley and Robson. From Wordnik.com. [Chelsea Blog] Reference
Teach them to cut the entire flowering stem (called a scape) to the base, to bring cuttings indoors when they are just beginning to open and to place them in water immediately. From Wordnik.com. [Green Scene: Gardening is a natural attraction for children] Reference
You could hear her "scape" (whistle) for a distance of twenty miles on a clear day or night. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
They think that ef they're seen afore they git up to the house their victims might 'scape' em. From Wordnik.com. [The Lone Ranche] Reference
But I do remember that the Jews were commanded to let one of two goats go, from which practice it has, I believe, been called a scape-goat. ". From Wordnik.com. [Oak Openings] Reference
Which wee must suffer heere, and scape heereafter. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
Your lordship stands mee, scape but one more charge. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
So that we, in snowy France, may 'scape the Teuton's ire. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919] Reference
At last Connolly, to escape becoming a scape-goat, appointed Andrew H. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Annelet or annellus: Hym.; small ring-joints between scape and funicle. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
If he scape this age, he has scaped a tempest, and may live to be a man. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
I was the scape-goat of every accident and of every one's sins or carelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
But after a bit, these and many other references blend into a multitextured sound scape. From Wordnik.com. [The Best New Music of 2005: John Brady] Reference
The scape, labrum, mandibles and palpi ferruginous; the clypeus widely emarginate anteriorly. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Funicle: the joints between the scape and club in Funiculate antennae: a small cord: a slender stalk. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Black; the antennæ and the head above their insertion ferruginous, the scape black, the head coarsely punctured. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Sometimes from the side of a flower-stalk or scape, which usually does not bear leaves, those organs are produced. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Head, scape of the antennæ, thorax, anterior and intermediate legs, ferruginous; flagellum and tips of the mandibles black. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Black; subopake; the face, sides of the thorax and beneath with silvery pubescence; the mandibles, palpi, and scape in front rufo-testaceous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
The paschal lamb; the smitten rock; the brazen serpent; and the scape-goat on the day of expiation, exhibited this feature of Messiah's character. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
The Internet has shifted the playing scape here in terms of programs that would normally be downloaded can now look the same and feel the same online. From Wordnik.com. [Can Free Web Applications Lead To Revenue?] Reference
Black; the scape, the base of the flagellum beneath, the anterior margin of the clypeus and the mandibles ferruginous; the latter black at their apex. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
Black; the head smooth and shining; the clypeus, the cheeks, and face anteriorly covered with silvery pile; the scape in front, the mandibles, and palpi ferruginous. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference
It is set far in the post-apocalyptic future, after the polar caps have melted, burying the world as we know it under water and turning the horizon into an unending scape of sea. From Wordnik.com. ['Waterworld': It Floats] Reference
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