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Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.

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

Retain :: Retain (v. t.) To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like..

Free :: Free (superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells..

Narrowly :: Narrowly (adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped..

Inevitably :: Inevitably (adv.) Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.

Oversight :: Oversight (n.) Escape from an overlooked peril.

Escape :: Escape (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression..

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of..

Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..

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..

Comedo :: Comedo (n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt)..

Rejuvenescence :: Rejuvenescence (n.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoospores, etc..

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

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

Shun :: Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice..

Gas-burner :: Gas-burner (n.) The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war..

Sly :: Sly (v. t.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense..

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