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Creephole :: Creephole (n.) A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger..

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors..

Theftbote :: Theftbote (n.) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment..

Outloose :: Outloose (n.) A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion.

Hairbreadth :: Hairbreadth (a.) Having the breadth of a hair; very narrow; as, a hairbreadth escape..

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

Safety :: Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.

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

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..

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..

Eschew :: Eschew (a.) To escape from; to avoid.

#NAME? :: -en () A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen..

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.

Overflow :: Overflow (n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

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

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..

Thrombus :: Thrombus (n.) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

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

Effervesce :: Effervesce (v. i.) To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form..

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..

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