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Encyclopedia > Scruples

The word scruples or scruple can mean:

  • An uneasy feeling arising from conscience or principle that tends to hinder action. (Synonym: "qualm".)
  • A unit of apothecary weight. It is equivalent to a twenty-fourth part of an ounce, 1.3 grams, or 20 grains.
  • Scruples, a novel by Judith Krantz.
  • Scruples, a board game by Henry Makow.
  • Scruples, Professional Salon Products inc.

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The apothecaries system of mass is an obsolete system formerly used by apothecaries (now called pharmacists or chemists) in English-speaking countries. ... The ounce is the name for a number of different units of mass (oz), and also of two units of fluid volume (fl oz) and of one unit of force, the ounce-force (ozf). ... BIC pen cap, about 1 gram. ... A grain is a unit of mass equal to 0. ... Judith Krantz (born Judith Tarcher on January 9, 1928 in New York City), is an American novelist who writes in the romance genre. ...

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Scruples (754 words)
John, Robin, and Ellen are in the kitchen, eating, so what else is new?, and Scruples and Simba are trotting in between their legs, optimistic for crumbs.
Scruples is limping around the kitchen holding her right hind leg up like an elderly ballerina.
She appears dead because she's been given some medication, but should come to about the same time her owner is revived from speaking to our accountant.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Scruple (828 words)
scruples which may be recognized from the start, but this is not the rule.
They are counselled also to avoid idleness, and thus to close the avenue of approach to the wild conjectures and strange ponderings responsible for so many of their worries.
scruples be ignorance -- for example, with regard to the obligation of some commandment -- they are to be instructed, discretion being used in the imparting of the necessary information.
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