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Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennæ.

Bearing, or composed of, lamellæ, or thin layers, plates, or scales; foliated.

Thin and flat; scalelike; lamellar.

A thin plate or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

Consisting of, or covered with, laminæ, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

Forming, or separating into, scales or thin layers.

f musical label. -- Leading note (Mus.), the seventh note or tone in the ascending major scale; the sensible note. -- Leading question, a question so framed as to guide the person questioned in making his reply. -- Leading strings, strings by which children are supported when beginning to walk. -- To be in leading…

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.

n. Leafless plants, plants having no foliage, though leaves may be present in the form of scales and bracts. See Leaf, n., 1 and 2.

Any one of a division (Lepidoganoidei) of ganoid fishes, including those that have scales forming a coat of mail. Also used adjectively.

or rose-violet color, containing lithia. It usually occurs in masses consisting of small scales. See Mica.

found in granitic rocks in small six-sided tables, or as an aggregation of minute opaque scales. See Mica.

ncludes the butterflies and moths. They have broad wings, covered with minute overlapping scales, usually brightly colored.

Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.

of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.…

Covered with thin, scurfy scales.

The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale. Bacon.

xide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately in a current of air or by calcining lead nitrate or carbonate. It is used in making flint glass, in glazing earthenware, in making red lead minium, etc. Called also massicot.

Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fine yellow scales.

A small degree or scale; miniature. " His picture in little." Shak. A little, to or in a small degree; to a limited extent; somewhat; for a short time. " Stay a little." Shak. The painter flattered her a little. Shak. -- By little and little, or Little by little, by slow degrees; piecemeal; gradually.…