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Escape
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
(2):
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
(3):
(v. i.) 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.
(4):
(n.) A plant which has escaped from cultivation.
(5):
(n.) An apophyge.
(6):
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
(7):
(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
(8):
(n.) A sally.
(9):
(n.) 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.
(10):
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
(11):
(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; - often followed by from or out of.
(12):
(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
(13):
(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Escape'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/escape.html. 1828.
