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Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit..

Barely :: Barely (adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped..

Wasteweir :: Wasteweir (n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like..

Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..

Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible..

Vent :: Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority..

Leak :: Leak (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out..

Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..

Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..

Hernia :: Hernia (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture..

Loophole :: Loophole (n.) A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion..

Avolate :: Avolate (v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.

Guard :: Guard (n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like..

Save :: Save (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.

Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..

Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.

Surquedous :: Surprising (a.) Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.

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