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The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

h to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly. Arbuthnot.

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

The state of being scaly; roughness.

how the fishes live in the sea. Shak. Ambiguous between sea and land The river horse and scaly crocodile. Milton.

A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.

Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

t on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

To move as a lash; to lash. [Obs.] Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail. Milton.

herpes. See Herpes. Honeycomb tetter (Med.), favus. -- Moist tetter (Med.), eczema. -- Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the white bryony.

Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions. But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast. Milton. Over which dusky draperies are hanging, and voluminous curtains have long since fallen. De Quincey.

A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.

y (Chloroperla viridis); -- called also yellow Sally. -- Willow gall (Zoöl.), a conical, scaly gall produced on willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly (Cecidomyia strobiloides). -- Willow grouse (Zoöl.), the white ptarmigan. See ptarmigan. -- Willow lark (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Willow ptar…

A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.