Crossword-Solution: TREPANS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Apparently, however, she had something else in her head; for as, after a brief affectation of reluctance, she permitted Peveril’s face to approach hers, she whispered in his ear, “Beware of trepans!”--an awful intimation, which, in those days of distrust, suspicion, and treachery, was as effectual in interdicting free and social intercourse, as the advertisement of “man-traps and spring-guns,” to protect an orchard.

Surgical instruments made included straight and curved knives and probes, lancets, scissors, spatulas, trepans (for cutting bone), and cupping cases.

Among these unhappy objects, very agreeable features are frequently seen disguised amidst dirt and rags, and this still exposes them to greater hazards; for these are the girls which the vile procuress seeks after; she trepans them to her brothel, even while they are yet children, and she cleans and dresses them up for prostitution.

And behind it follows the incisor, or knife itself, dividing the skull; so that is impossible to discover another mode of operating more free from danger or more expeditious.” But the mode of operating with saws and the instruments called chœnicides or modioli (trepans?) is condemned by the moderns as a bad one, and the operation may be done as we described for fissure.