Word Meanings - SCAPEGALLOWS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.

Related words: (words related to SCAPEGALLOWS)

• GALLOWS
  The rest for the tympan when raised. 4. pl. (more info) AS. galga, gealga, gallows, cross; akin to D. galg gallows, OS. & OHG. galgo, G. galgen, Icel. galgi, Sw. & Dan. galge, Goth. galga a cross. Etymologically and historically considered, gallows
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• 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.
• ESCAPER
  One who escapes.
• ESCAPABLE
  Avoidable.
• ESCAPE
  LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's 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;
• PRESCAPULA
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• SCAPEGALLOWS
  One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes. Dickens.
• PRESCAPULAR
  Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.
• PRAEORAL; PRAEPUBIS; PRAESCAPULA; PRAESCUTUM; PRAESTERNUM
  See ETC (more info) Præ*ster"num, n.
• ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT
  The common recoil escapement. A variety of the lever escapement with a wide impulse pin.
• INESCAPABLE
  Not escapable.