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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Scaph·ism 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.