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Psoriasis :: Psoriasis (n.) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin..

Squamaceous :: Squama (n.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

Scale :: Scale (n.) One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera..

Stupid :: Stupeous (a.) Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose..

Mail :: Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc..

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

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

Vermiculite :: Vermiculite (n.) A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms..

Elytrum :: Elytrum (n.) One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chaetopoda.

Supra-oesophagal :: Supraocular (a.) Above the eyes; -- said of certain scales of fishes and reptiles.

Mi :: Mi (n.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system..

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

Clef :: Clef (n.) A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.

Celsius :: Celsius (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale..

Diatonic :: Diatonic (a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first..

Labial :: Labial (n.) One of the scales which border the mouth of a fish or reptile.

Squarrose :: Squarrose (a.) Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagge.

Beeswing :: Beeswing (n.) The second crust formed in port and some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee..

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

Iron :: Iron (n.) The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked b

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