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Definition of scale

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Scale (n.) A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns..

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Submental :: Submediant (n.) The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant..

Elaeagnus :: Elaeagnus (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster..

Sea Orange :: Sea orange () A large American holothurian (Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

G :: G () G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G/ (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A..

Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To scatter; to spread.

Lepidoptera :: Lepidoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects, which includes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored..

Alamire :: Alamire (n.) The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

Pappus :: Pappus (n.) The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order..

Mailed :: Mailed (a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates..

Glyptodon :: Glyptodon (n.) An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth..

Si :: Si () A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century..

Clove :: Clove (n.) One of the small bulbs developed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb, as in the case of garlic..

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..

Impennate :: Impennate (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins..

Ginglymodi :: Ginglymodi (n.) An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocercal tail, paired fins without an axis, fulcra on the fins, and a bony skeleton, with the vertebrae convex in front and concave behind, forming a ball and socket joint. See Ganoidel..

Subtorrid :: Subtonic (n.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone..

Squamous :: Squamous () Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale..

Dominant :: Dominant (n.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on..

Pruinose :: Pruinose (a.) Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost..

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..