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Wax :: Wax (n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below..

Laminating :: Laminating (a.) Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers..

Squarrose :: Squarrose (a.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem..

Retiped :: Retiped (n.) A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.

Exfoliate :: Exfoliate (v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark..

Decimal :: Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low..

Index :: Index (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist..

Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..

Lepisma :: Lepisma (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug..

Traverser :: Traverser (n.) One who, or that which, traverses, or moves, as an index on a scale, and the like..

Balance :: Balance (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.

Placoid :: Placoid (a.) Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids..

Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement..

Scaled :: Scaled (a.) Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring..

Makeweight :: Makeweight (n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

Pycnaspidean :: Pycnaspidean (a.) Having the posterior side of the tarsus covered with small irregular scales; -- said of certain birds.

Microcrystalline :: Microcrystalline (a.) Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline..

Ctenoid :: Ctenoid (a.) Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale.

Sericite :: Sericite (n.) A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

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