Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Scaphism

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Scaphism


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(n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.