Definition of scale

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Scale (n.) Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc..

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Contractor :: Contractor (n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad..
Rhombohedral :: Rhombohedral (a.) Related to the rhombohedron; presenting the form of a rhombohedron, or a form derivable from a rhombohedron; relating to a system of forms including the rhombohedron and scalenohedron..
Transcalency :: Transcalency (n.) The quality or state of being transcalent.
Lac :: Lac (n.) A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from the margin of her body this resinous substance..
Scaleless :: Scaleless (a.) Destitute of scales.
Stupid :: Stupeous (a.) Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose..
Lithargyrum :: Lithargyrum (n.) Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales..
Intonate :: Intonate (v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.
Peal :: Peal (n.) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells..
Microcrystalline :: Microcrystalline (a.) Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline..
Perigynium :: Perigynium (n.) Some unusual appendage about the pistil, as the bottle-shaped body in the sedges, and the bristles or scales in some other genera of the Sedge family, or Cyperaceae..
Squame :: Squame (n.) A scale.
Cupola :: Cupola (n.) A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome..
Lamellarly :: Lamellarly (adv.) In thin plates or scales.
Cataphract :: Cataphract (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations..
Aventurine :: Aventurine (n.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica..
Cinder :: Cinder (n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.
Squamiform :: Squamellate (a.) Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.
Mental :: Mental (n.) A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
Do :: Do (n.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet..
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