escape 
2002 
escheat 
jury: as, escape from contagion, or from bank- escarp (es-karp'), r. t. [< F. escarper = Sp. Pg. 
ruptcy. escarpar = It. scarpare, cut steep, as rocks or 
You have cause slopes, to render them inaccessible. Hence, by 
apheresis, scarp, the usual E. form : see scarp, v.) 
3. In tow, the regaining of liberty or transcend- escarples^rpe^es^ka^p 8 '') 8 , 1 ^ 6 [< F. escarpe (= Eschafina (es-ka-ri'ua), n. pi. [NL., < Escha- 
Sp. Pg. escarpa = It. scarpa) ; from the verb. ra + -') A superfamily of chilostomatous 
(So have we all) of joy ; for our escape 
Is much beyond our loss. Shale,, Tempest, ii. 1. 
opening reduced, the colony consisting either of rounded 
or flattened branches, with the cells on opposite sides. 
The polyzoarium is calcareous, radicate, and erect, foli- 
aceous or ramose, or incrusting ; the znu-cia are urceolate, 
entirely calcified in front, and the cells are disposed quin- 
cuncially on one or both sides of the zoarimn. 
ing the limits of confinement^ without due 
course of law, by a person in custody of the law. 
A constructive escape is where the prisoner, though still 
under restraint, gets more liberty than the law allows him. 
The word escape is commonly used in reference to the lia- 
bility of the sheriff for suffering an escape ; and, thus con- 
'g. 
Hence, by apheresis, scarp, the usual E. form : 
see scarp, n.) In fort., that side of a ditch sur- 
rounding a rampart which is nearest to the ram- 
part: the opposite of counterscarp. 
gymnolffimatous polyzoans, containing those 
with the zocecium mostly calcareous, and a lat- 
eral opening of the quadrate or semi-oval cell, 
as in the families Eschariporida;, Escharidce, 
sidered, escapes are voluntary or involuntary or negligent: poparnnipTitTpR "kHrr/TnViitT " *{< F fifnrne and others. 
voluntary, when an officer permits an offender or a debtor escarpment ^S-Karp mem;, )i. [f, * escarpe- ' '"" . 
toquithiscustodywithoutconscntofthecreditororwith- ment, < escarper, escarp : see escarp and -ment.) XiScnanpora (es-ka-rip o-ra), n. 
out legal discharge ; and involuntary or negligent, when 
an arrested person quits the custody of the officer against 
his will. 
4. A means of flight; that by which danger 
or injury may be avoided, or liberty regained : 
as, a fire-escape. 
The refuge and consolation of serious and truly religious 
minds is more and more in literature and in the free es- 
capes and outlooks which it supplies. 
John Burroughs, The Century, XXVII. 920. 
6f. Excuse; subterfuge; evasion. 
St. Paul himself did not despise to remember whatsoever 
he found agreeable to the word of God among the heathen, 
that he might take from them all escape by way of ignorance. 
Raleigh. 
6f. That which escapes attention; an over- 
sight ; a mistake. 
Readyer to correct escapes in those languages, then to 
be controlled, fitter to teacli others, then learne of anye. u.ix / T-- 4. i-/\ rf\-rr> 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 9. escartelg (es-kar-te-la'J), a. [OF., pp. ofescarte- 
1. In fort., ground cut away, nearly vertically, 
about a position in order to render it inaccessi- 
ble to an enemy. 
The old Porto Batavo walls still surround the town, 
with moat and escarpments. 
W. H. Kttssell, Diary in India, I. 82. 
Arch, tower, and gate, grotesquely windowed hall, 
And long escarpment of half-crumbled wall. 
Whittier, The Panorama. 
Hence 2. The precipitous side of any hill or 
rock ; the abrupt face of a high ridge of land ; 
a cliff. 
[NL., < Gr. 
a scar, + Tropof, a passage, pore.] The 
typical genus of polyzoans 
of the family Escharipori- 
dte. Hall, 1847. 
Eschariporidae (es"ka-ri- 
por'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < 
Escharipora T -idx.) A 
family of chilostomatous 
gymnolsematous polyzo- 
ans, having rhomboid or 
cylindrical cells, with semi- 
circular opening, and the 
anterior margin split or per- 
forated. 
We here [in the mountains of New South Wales] see an 
original escarpment, not formed by the sea having eaten 
back into the strata, but by the strata having originally escharotic (es-ka-rot'ik), a. 
extended only thus far. o,,-! r/ f-- InvnmmK/u- 
Z,anXGeol. Observations,. HO. 
In transcribing there would be less care taken, as the 
language was less understood and so the escapes less sub- 
ject to observation. Brerewood, Languages. 
7f. An escapade; a wild or irregular action. 
Rome will despise her for this foul escape. 
_---, form a scar, < ia x dpa, a 
ler, quarter, < qiiarticr, fourth, quarter: see quar- scar: see eschar 1 .) I. a. 
ter.) In her., broken by a square projection or Caustic ; having the power 
depression: said of a straight line serving as of searing or destroying the 
the division between two parts of the field, and flesh, 
also of either of the divisions. Atter the nature of septick all(t 
., iv. 2. escarteled (es-karteld), a. In7(er.,sameases- escharotick medicines, it corrodes 
8. In bot., a plant which has escaped from cul- carfete'. Escarteled counter, in her., broken by projec- a . nd consumes the flesh in a very 
tivation, and become self -established, more or tions, one tincture into the other and reciprocally. Prop- 
less nprmHTipTitlv in fiplrU nr hv rvmrUirloe erly thls should be limited to square projections, but 
less permanently, in nelds or by roadsides. polnted and even curve(l breaks of the bo undary.line are 
9. Leakage or loss, as of gas, or of a current of sometimes blazoned in this way. 
electricity in a telegraph or electric-light cir- escartelee (es-kar'te-le), a. [< OF. escarteU, 
cuit by reason of imperfect insulation ; also, in pp. of escarteler, quarter: see escarteU.) Same 
elect., a shunt or derived current. 10. In arch., as escarteU. 
the curved part of the shaft of a column where -esce. [L. -escere, parallel to -iscere, -ascere = Gr. 
it springs out of the base ; the apophyge. See -emetv, -ianciv, -dcKew, being a formative suffix -sc eschatologic, eschatological (es''ka-t6-loj'ik, 
>aUi e J+ ['?'"'?- , .v/vni. added to the simple verb-stem to form the pres- -i-kal), a. [< eschatoloay + -ic-al.) Oforper- 
JSCapement (es-kap ment), n. [< OF. "escape- ent, rarely other tenses, with inceptive force, tairiing to eschatolojrv 
ment escliapemcnt , cschappement, F. ecbappe- The L. suffix -escere, -iscere is also the ult. I do not mean to sav that Christ never exnressed Him 
= Sp. escapannento= It. scampamento ; as source of the termination -ish in E. verbs like B^taC^SK^StaS^wS^SSSrS^S: 
Esckaripora ph ilomela . 
-- highly magnified, showing 
Short time. three cells and halves of 
Greenhill, Art of Embalming, two thers - 
[p. 272. 
II. n. A caustic application ; an application 
which sears or destroys flesh. 
An eschar was made by the catharetick, which we thrust 
off, and continued the use of escharoticks. 
Wiseman, Surgery. 
vibratory motion of the pendulum or balance- 
inchoative force, as in convalesce, begin to be 
trta 
Recoiling and Dead-beat Es- 
capements. 
branch of theology which treats of the end of the 
world and man's condition or state after death. 
The topics which belong theologically to eschatology are 
tharUirimpnTse^coniinu'nica '"'", phosphorescent, etc. The noun is in escence, 
ed to the pendulum be invari- fenescence, opalexence, etc. 
able, notwithstanding any ir- -BSCenCe, -CSCent. See -esce. , , 
regularity or foulness in the OSCht, . The fish commonly called the cravlinff death, immortality, the resurrection, the second coming 
train of wheels. Various kinds J ' "'"" of Christ, the millennium, the judgment, and the future 
of escapements have been con- lne escn (thymallus), the trout (trutta). state of existence. 
^n, e /',i,^ "", thC H'?'""' r a ' e ' rbiS PiCtU8> XXJCiV ' Hamack also lays great stress on the eschatology of the 
icom- eschalot (esh-a-lof), n. [< OF. eschalote: see ely believers, which he makes, in fact, their distinguish- 
S^SSSMSSiJ^tolSS: shallot.) Same as shallot. ing peculiarity. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 175. 
mon clocks both also termed eschar 1 (es'kar), 71. [Formerly also escarre < eschaufet, v. t. [ME. eschaufen, eschawfen, < 
recoiUngescapements; the dead- OF. escare, < L. eschara, < Gr. eaxapa, a scab, 9 F - eschaulfer,^ F. ^chauffer (= Pr. escalfar), < 
beat escapement and the 
ity- or remvMr-escapemtnt, ,SeAin the 'finer kindTf BCar: S6e SCarl ' the Satne WOrd through ME.] L - 
?' ock . s ; the horizontal escapement or cylinder-escapement, In pathol., a Crust Or scab on the skin, such as cn ate : 
he detached uoapemmt. the lever-escapement, the duplex is occasioned by a burn or caustic application not; h 
escapement, the pinwhcrl escapement, all used in the finer nnH wVii/>li talrn(rlia r\ff The H 
r.\r.aac,o ,\t ...!. . 1 Al- _ I _I* . i W1V.HIIC1 JtlH.1 WHICH ftlOUtTllS <)IT. IIC U 
L. excalfacere, heat, < ex, out, + calfacere, heat, 
" 
ent, the pinwheel escapement, ~& use? inth 
classes of watches ; and the half-dead escapement, in which 
there is a slight recoil. In the horizontal escapement the 
teeth of a horizontal wheel act upon a hollow cylinder on 
he axis of the balance, to give the impulse. 
One - Who r that which 
see chafe. 
heat. 
Cf. excalf action.] To make 
Tne ashes ' certain locusts . . . cause the thick routes 
aml e^ams that grow about the brims of ulcers to fall off 
Holland, tr. of Pliny xxx 13 
At le " th n t ee'd to make a separation'between 
pannvmo o v IP; icugui imuire seem a 10 maKe a separation between 
les. ^ lu. ix. IS, margin. the cancerated and sound breast, such as you often see aaf +>o,vnaAi 
escape-valve (es-kap' valv), n. A loaded valve where a caustic hath been applied, the eschar divides be- escnaunget 
fitted to the end of a steam-cylinder for the es- tween the Iiving alul the dead ' Boyle < Works ' VI - M7 - ch< H l 9 e l , 
cape of the condensed steam, or of water car- eschar 2 t, n. See esJcar. 
ried mechanically from the boilers with the Eschara (es'ka-ra), n. [NL., < Gr. eavdpa, a 
steam; a priming-valve. E. H. Knight. scar, scab: see eschar^.) The typical eenus of 
escarbuncle (es-kar'bung-kl), K. [<F. escar- polyzoans of the 
boucle (with excrescent es-), a carbuncle : see family Escliarida. 
carbuncle.) In her., same as carbuncle. Escharidae (es-kar'i- 
escargatoiret, . [Prop, "escargotoire, repr. a de), . pi. [NL., < 
possible * . escargotoire, equiv. to escaraotiere Eschara + -idai.) A 
< escflro, asnail, OF. escargol (with excrescent family of chilosto- 
es-) = bp. Pg. caracal, a snail: see caracoled matous gymnolas- 
A Tllivaoinr nt ..,,..;!. J 
A nursery of snails. 
At the Capuchins I saw the escarriatoire It is 
square place boarded in, and filled with a vastquant ty of 
eSteemed excellent food 'when they 
are wel" dressed 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bolm), I. 617. 
matous polyzoans, 
typified by the genus 
Eschara. They have 
the principal opening of 
the cell semicircular or 
circular, the secondary 
Eschara rlegans, natural size and 
magnified. 
The develes fornays that is eschaufid with the fuyr of 
helle. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Which that apperid as thing infinite ; 
With wine of Angoy, and als of Rochel tho 
Which wold eschau-fe the braines appetite. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 969. 
A Middle English form of ear- 
escheat (es-chef), n. [< ME. eschete, also abbr. 
chete, an escheat, < OF. eschet, escheit, escheoit, 
AF. escheat, m., also eschete, escheite, escheoite, 
etc., f ., that which falls to one, rent, spoil, orig. 
pp. of escheoir, F. echoir = Pr. cschazer = It. 
seadere, fall to one's share, < ML. excadere, fall 
upon, meet, a restored form of reg. L. cxcidere, 
fall upon, fall from, < ex, out, -I- cadere, fall: 
see case 1 , chance, accident, decay, etc., from the 
same ult. source. Hence, by apheresis, cheat.) 
1. The reverting or falling back of lands or 
tenements to the lord of the fee or to the state, 
whether through failure of heirs or (formerly) 
through the corruption of the blood of the ten- 
ant by his having been attainted, or by forfeit- 
ure for treason. By modern legislation there can be 
