scaphander

[ Pref.scaph-, and Greek anër 1. Ord. Lang.: A case in which a diver is inclosed IMG:content-0998.png:[blocks in formation] "They readily pardon all faults and scapes committed by negligence." - North : Plutarch , p. 206. scape-gallows, subst. One who has escaped the gallows though he has deserved it. ( Colloq.) scape-goat, s. 1. Lit. & Jewish ritual : A goat designed to 'scape, i. e., escape, as opposed to one killed and offered in sacrifice. Once a year, on the great day of atonement, after Aaron had offered a bullock in sacrifice for the sins of himself and his house (Lev. xvi. 1-6), he was to take two goats" for a sin offering" (5). Lots were to be cast, one lot for the Lord, and one (8, A. V.) for Azazel (R. V., on the margin "for dis mi al"). The goat on which Jehovah's lot fell was to be offered for a sin offering (9). "But the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be set alive before the Lord, to make atonement for him to send him away for Azazel into the wilderne ." (10.) Cf. Matt. xii. 43; Luke xi. 24. Before the dismi al, Aaron was to lay both his hands on the goat's head, and confe his sins and those of the people, putting them on the head of the goat, and send him by the hand of a trusty man into the wilderne , "and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities into a solitary land" (21, R. V.). If Azazel is an evil spirit [AZAZEL, 1], then after the sacrifice of the one goat had atoned for when under the surface of the water. 2. Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Bullide. Shell oblong, convolute, spirally striated; aperture greatly expanded; spire concealed. Recent species thirteen, from Europe and North America; fo il eight, from the Eocene onward.