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Help :: Help (v. t.) To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, Help me scale yon balcony..

Quintal :: Quintal (n.) A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental..

Wolf :: Wolf (a.) In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale..

Flake :: Flake (v. i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.

Squamosal :: Squamoid (a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly..

Scabrous :: Scabrous (a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly..

Mode :: Mode (n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music..

Scabbard Plane :: Scabbard plane () See Scaleboard plane, under Scaleboard..

Postorbital :: Postorbital (a.) Situated behind the orbit; as, the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles..

Trumpet :: Trumpet (n.) A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tube, curved (once or twice) into a convenient shape, and ending in a bell. Its scale in the lower octaves is limited to the first natural harmonics; but there are modern trumpets capable, by means of valves or pistons, of producing every tone within their compass, although at the expense of the true ringing quality of tone..

Scutelliplantar :: Scutelliplantar (a.) Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds..

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) A thin plate or scale; a layer or coat lying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals..

Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..

Rugine :: Rugine (v. t.) To scrape or rasp, as a bone; to scale..

Prefrontal :: Prefrontal (a.) Situated in front of the frontal bone, or the frontal region of the skull; ectethmoid, as a certain bone in the nasal capsule of many animals, and certain scales of reptiles and fishes..

Shagreened :: Shagreened (a.) Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.

Lorication :: Lorication (n.) The act of loricating; the protecting substance put on; a covering of scales or plates.

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..

Ganoidei :: Ganoidei (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales..

Entropy :: Entropy (n.) A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quantity increases or diminishes. If a small amount, h, of heat enters the body when its temperature is t in the thermodynamic scale the entropy of the body is increased by h / t. The entropy is regarded as measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic f

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