Word Meanings - ESCAPADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to 1. The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol. 2. Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle.
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- SALLYMAN
The velella; -- called also saleeman. - SALLY
To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally. They break the truce, and sally out by night. Dryden. The foe retires, -- she heads the sallying host. Byron. - FORAYER
One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott. - FORAY
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson. - ESCAPADE
escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to 1. The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol. 2. Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle. - SALLY LUNN
A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter. - INROAD
The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment. The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. Clarendon. With perpetual inroads - UNIVERSALLY
In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures. - NASALLY
In a nasal manner; by the nose. - DORSALLY
On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of; dorsad. - MESALLY
See MESIALLY - CAUSALLY
According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes. - DISALLY
To part, as an alliance; to sunder. "Disallied their nuptials." Milton.