esca pement, scapement

[Eng. escape; ment.] *1. Ord. Lang.: The act of escaping; an escape. 2. Hor .: A device intervening between the power and the time-measurer in a clock or watch, to convert a continuous rotary into an oscillating isochro IMG:content-1138.png:[blocks in formation] eschatology the motion of the train to be intermittent. Clocks and watches are generally named according to the form of their escapement; as, Chronometer, Crown. wheel, Cylinder, Deadbeat, Detached, Duplex, Horizontal, and Lever escapement, . (See these words.) ěs-cāpēr, s. [Eng. escap (e); -cr.] One who or that which escapes. ěs-cap-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [ESCAPE, v.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act of avoiding danger or hurt by flight; an escape. *ěs-car' (1), *es-char', s . [Fr. eschare .] A scar or hard scab upon a hurt, sore, wound, . [SCAR.] ěs-car (2), ěs-kar, s . [Ir.] Geol.: A local Irish term for drift (q. v.). [SCOUR.] *ěs-car-bun-cle, s. [CARBUNCLE.] *es-car-ga-toire (toire as twar), s . [Fr., from escargot a snail.] A nursery or breeding-place for snails. ěs-carp', v. t. [Fr. escar per =to cut away, rocks, ., in slopes, so as to render them inacce ible.) [SCARP.] Fort.: To cut or form in a slope. "The glacis was all escarped upon the live rock."Car let on: Memoirs, p. 132.