WordDictionary

Noun:

• Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience; to consider if something is ethical.
• obsolete A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
• obsolete A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
• obsolete Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.

Verb:

• intransitive To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
• obsolete To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
• To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
• To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.