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<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I should have been more accurate, and corrected all those former <b>escapes</b>. <i>Burton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A sally.</def> "Thousand <i>escapes</i> of wit."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Escape</i> is technically distinguishable from <i>prison breach</i>, which is the unlawful departure of the prisoner from custody, <i>escape</i> being the permission of the departure by the custodian, either by connivance or negligence. The term <i>escape</i>, however, is applied by some of the old authorities to a departure from custody by stratagem, or without force.</note>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>An apophyge.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Elec.)</fld> <def>Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.</def>

<cs><col>Escape pipe</col> <fld>(Steam Boilers)</fld>, <cd>a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve.</cd> -- <col>Escape valve</col> <fld>(Steam Engine)</fld>, <cd>a relief valve; a safety valve. See under <er>Relief</er>, and <er>Safety</er>.</cd> -- <col>Escape wheel</col> <fld>(Horol.)</fld>, <cd>the wheel of an escapement.</cd></cs>

<h1>Escapement</h1> <Xpage=509>

<hw>Es*cape"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82chappement</ets>. See <er>Escape</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of escaping; escape.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Way of escape; vent.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>An <b>escapement</b> for youthful high spirits. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to <i>escape</i> from a pallet at each vibration.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Escapements</i> are of several kinds, as the <i>vertical</i>, or <i>verge</i>, or <i>crown</i>, <i>escapement</i>, formerly used in watches, in which two pallets on the balance arbor engage with a crown wheel; the <i>anchor escapement</i>, in which an anchor-shaped piece carries the pallets; -- used in common clocks (both are called <i>recoil escapements</i>, from the recoil of the escape wheel at each vibration); the <i>cylinder escapement</i>, having an open-sided hollow cylinder on the balance arbor to control the escape wheel; the <i>duplex escapement</i>, having two sets of teeth on the wheel; the <i>lever escapement</i>, which is a kind of <i>detached escapement</i>, because the pallets are on a lever so arranged that the balance which vibrates it is detached during the greater part of its vibration and thus swings more freely; the <i>detent escapement</i>, used in chronometers; the <i>remontoir escapement</i>, in which the escape wheel is driven by an independent spring or weight wound up at intervals by the clock train, -- sometimes used in astronomical clocks. When the shape of an escape-wheel tooth is such that it falls dead on the pallet without recoil, it forms a <i>deadbeat escapement</i>.</note>

<h1>Escaper</h1> <Xpage=509>

<hw>Es*cap"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who escapes.</def>

<h1>Escarbuncle</h1> <Xpage=509>

<hw>Es*car"bun*cle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>escarbuncle</ets>, F. <ets>escaboucle</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>See <er>Carbuncle</er>, 3.</def>

<h1>Escargatoire</h1> <Xpage=509>

<hw>Es*car`ga*toire"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>escargoti\'8are</ets>, fr. <ets>escargot</ets> snail.]</ety> <def>A nursery of snails.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Escarp</h1> <Xpage=509>

<hw>Es*carp"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>escarpe</ets> (cf. Sp. <ets>escarpa</ets>, It. <ets>scarpa</ets>), fr. <ets>escarper</ets> to cut steep, cut to a slope, prob. of German origin: cf. G. <ets>scharf</ets> sharp,, E. <ets>sharp</ets>, or perh. <ets>scrape</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as <i>scarp</i>, and opposed to <i>counterscarp</i>.</def>

<h1>Escarp</h1> <Xpage=509>