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or string consisting of a number of things united, as by braiding, twining, etc.; as, a rope of onions.

To punish with a rope's end.

the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar. [Written also roband, and robbin.]

One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a rope extended through the air at some height. -- Rope"dan`cing, n.

A maker of ropes. P. Plowman.

A place where ropes are made.

A long, covered walk, or a low, level building, where ropes are manufactured.

A ropedancer.

Same as Gyroscope, 1.

Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs. Scalloped oysters (Cookery), opened oysters baked in a deep dish with alternate layers of bread or cracker crumbs, seasoned with pepper, nutmeg, and butter. This was at first done in scallop shells.

One who fishes for scallops.

Having the two flexor tendons of the toes entirely separate, and the flexor hallicus going to the first toe only.

A genus of venomous myriapods including the centipeds. See Centiped.

Like or pertaining to the Scolopendra.

One who, or that which scoops.

e design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." Spenser. Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or quality the laws As to your soul seems good. Shak. The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Hook…

Scopeloid.

Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n. (Zoöl.)

An instrument that discloses objects in the dark or in a faint light. [Obs.] Pepys.