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Sol-fa :: Sol-fa (n.) The gamut, or musical scale. See Tonic sol-fa, under Tonic, n..

Squamosal :: Squamoid (a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly..

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..

Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril..

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use..

Scutellated :: Scutellated (a.) Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds..

Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc..

Calliope :: Calliope (n.) A musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers..

Octave :: Octave (n.) The whole diatonic scale itself.

Thuringite :: Thuringite (n.) A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green color and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron.

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

Tone :: Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone..

Numeration :: Numeration (n.) The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method..

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

Key :: Key (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key..

Intonate :: Intonate (v. i.) To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol-fa.

Ganoidei :: Ganoidei (n. pl.) One of the subclasses of fishes. They have an arterial cone and bulb, spiral intestinal valve, and the optic nerves united by a chiasma. Many of the species are covered with bony plates, or with ganoid scales; others have cycloid scales..

Squamosal :: Squamosal (a.) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone..

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

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