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A tool with a semicircular edge, -- used by engravers to clear away the spaces between the lines of an engraving. Fairholt.

Hence, a very small quantity; a particle. I will not bate thee a scruple. Shak.

One who scruples.

A scrupler. [Obs.]

To perplex with scruples; to regard with scruples. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

The quality or state of being scruppulous; doubt; doubtfulness respecting decision or action; caution or tenderness from the far of doing wrong or ofending; nice regard to exactness and propierty; precision. The first sacrilege is looked on with horror; but when they have made the breach, their scrupulosity soon retire…

Full ofscrupules; inclined to scruple; nicely doubtful; hesitating to determine or to act, from a fear of offending or of doing wrong. Abusing their liberty, to the offense of their weak brethren which were scrupulous. Hooker.

oad blackish transverse bands at night and when dead. Called also porgee, paugy, porgy, scuppaug.

See 2d Scup.

nd bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.

Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.

The young of an insect in a stage between the larva and pupa.

A half bath, or one that covers only the lewer extremities and the hips; a sitz-bath; a half bath, or hip bath.

Seven times as much; multiplied by seven; sevenfold.

and a half as great (as another thing); having the ratio of two and a half to one. Sesquiduplicate ratio (Math.), the ratio of two and a half to one, or one in which the greater term contains the lesser twice and a half, as that of 50 to 20.

ic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs.

The game of cards called also all fours, and old sledge. [U. S.]

Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure.

Having a pallial sinus. See under Sinus.