Vocabulary : Scale to Scaler
Scale : The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively. ;; The sign or constellation Libra. ;; To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system. ;; One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. ;; Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc. ;; 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. ;; A scale insect. (See below.) ;; A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf,Scaleback : Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.
Scalebeam : The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied. ;; A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.
Scaleboard : A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. ;; A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.
Scaled : of Scale ;; Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc. ;; Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring. ;; Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
