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Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.

Having the tarsi covered with broad transverse scales, or scutella; -- said of certain birds.

the entire covering, or mode of arrangement, of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird.

Having broad scutella on the front, and small scales on the posterior side, of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.

One of the transverse scales on the tarsi and toes of birds; a scutella.

Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered with scutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bands terminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.

(Lophothuria Fabricii) having a bright orange convex body covered with finely granulated scales. Its expanded tentacles are bright red.

t, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.

Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.

man, by and by a fool. Shak. Sensible note or tone (Mus.), the major seventh note of any scale; -- so called because, being but a half step below the octave, or key tone, and naturally leading up to that, it makes the ear sensible of its approaching sound. Called also the leading tone. -- Sensible horizon. See Horizo…

asing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends. Pope.

chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.

A kind of muscovite occuring in silky scales having a fibrous structure. It is characteristic of sericite schist.

An interval embracing seven diatonic degrees of the scale.

years old. Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. -- Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

ns. -- Sexagesimal, or Sexagenary, arithmetic, the method of computing by the sexagenary scale, or by sixties. -- Sexagesimal scale (Math.), the sexagenary scale.

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.

Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen.