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

Graduation :: Graduation (n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc..

Scincoidian :: Scincoidian (n.) Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink..

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

Scale :: Scale (v. i.) To lead up by steps; to ascend.

Echometer :: Echometer (n.) A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals..

Cone :: Cone (n.) The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base..

Eidograph :: Eidograph (n.) An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

Cinder :: Cinder (n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.

Duodecimal :: Duodecimal (n.) A system of numbers, whose denominations rise in a scale of twelves, as of feet and inches. The system is used chiefly by artificers in computing the superficial and solid contents of their work..

Escaloped :: Escaloped (a.) Covered with a pattern resembling a series of escalop shells, each of which issues from between two others. Its appearance is that of a surface covered with scales..

Keeled :: Keeled (a.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale..

Scalenohedral :: Scalenohedral (a.) Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

Scaleboard :: Scaleboard (n.) A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like..

Gunter''s Scale :: Gunter's scale () A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant..

Cameo :: Cameo (n.) A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal adornment, or like..

Supereminence :: Superdominant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

Counterscale :: Counterscale (n.) Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) The third tone of the scale. See Mediant.

Lamellated :: Lamellated (a.) Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae..

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