scape-grace

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• Scape

  ·noun The shaft of a column. II. Scape ·noun The apophyge of a shaft. III. Scape ·noun Means of es...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Grace

  ·noun <<Thanks>>. II. Grace ·vt To supply with heavenly grace. III. Grace ·vt To add grace notes, ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Grace

  1) Of form or person (Prov. 1:9; 3:22; Ps. 45:2). 2) Favour, kindness, friendship (Gen. 6:8; 18:3; ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• grace

  See act of grace. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Scape-wheel

  ·noun The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• scape-gallows

  One who has escaped, though deserving of the gallows. It seems to be synonymous with Cotgrave's pend...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• noon-scape

  the time when labourers rest after dinner. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• scape-gallows

  a fellow who deserves to be hanged. Var. Dial. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• water-scape

  A culvert, aqueduct, or passage for water. ...

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• Goat, Scape

  [Atonement, The Day Of, Day OF] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Aguilar, Grace

  (1816-1847) Novelist and writer on Jewish history and religion, was b. at Hackney of Jewish parents...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Grace Court

  In Fenchurch Street (P.C. 1732-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• bon grace

  Junk-fenders; for booming off obstacles from a ship's sides or bows. (See bowgrace.) ...

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• Grace, means of

  An expression not used in Scripture, but employed (1) to denote those institutions ordained by God t...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Rhys, Mrs. Grace

  (b. 1865) Novelist and essayist. Mary Dominic (1898), The Wooing of Sheila (1901), The Bride (1909)...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• act of grace

  An act of parliament for a general and free pardon to deserters from the service and others. ...

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• coup de grace

  The finishing shot which brings an enemy to surrender; or the wound which deprives an adversary of l...

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