Definition of scale

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Scale (n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals..

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Gazogene :: Gazogene (n.) A portable apparatus for making soda water or aerated liquids on a small scale.
Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..
Scale :: Scale (v. t.) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder..
Third :: Third (n.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant.
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Resembling chaff; composed of light dry scales.
Squandered :: Squamulose (a.) Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts..
Tourmaline :: Tourmaline (n.) A mineral occurring usually in three-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels..
Scaleboard :: Scaleboard (n.) A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
Little :: Little (n.) A small degree or scale; miniature.
Hepatic :: Hepatic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts..
Chaffy :: Chaffy (a.) Bearing or covered with dry scales, as the under surface of certain ferns, or the disk of some composite flowers..
Pityriasis :: Pityriasis (n.) A superficial affection of the skin, characterized by irregular patches of thin scales which are shed in branlike particles..
Xanthium :: Xanthium (n.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.
Intonation :: Intonation (n.) The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
Tonic :: Tonic (n.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale..
Infralabial :: Infralabial (a.) Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
Scale :: Scale (n.) A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
Scaly :: Scaly (a.) Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish..
Molybdenite :: Molybdenite (n.) A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum..
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