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Sleight :: Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.

Elope :: Elope (v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart..

Scape :: Scape (n.) Means of escape; evasion.

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The act of escaping; escape.

Pour :: Pour (v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.

Bay :: Bay (v. i.) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible..

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..

Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..

Escaped :: Escaped (imp. & p. p.) of Escap.

Unscapable :: Unscapable (a.) Not be escaped; inevitable.

Escape :: Escape (v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention..

Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..

Luckily :: Luckily (adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument..

Release :: Release (n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement..

Regain :: Regain (v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again..

Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..

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

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee..

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