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Like :: Like (v. i.) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly; as, he liked to have been too late. Cf. Had like, under Like, a..

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

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

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

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

Vent :: Vent (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent..

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)..

Escapement :: Escapement (n.) Way of escape; vent.

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

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

Grasshopper :: Grasshopper (n.) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper..

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

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

Elude :: Elude (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow..

Scapegoat :: Scapegoat (n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness..

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

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

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

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..

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

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