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A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Having the shape of a scale.

Bearing scales.

Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

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

Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.

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.

One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

To hold a quartile position respecting. The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales. Creech.

Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as:

. Stearic acid (Chem.), a monobasic fatty acid, obtained in the form of white crystalline scales, soluble in alcohol and ether. It melts to an oily liquid at 69°C.C18H36O2, CH3.(CH2)16.COOH; sodium stearate, with sodium palmitate, is the main component of ordinary bar soaps (Such as Ivory soap).

ize, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.

ce measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride. Pope. God never meant that man should scale the heavens By strides of human wisdom. Cowper.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

The sixth tone of the scale; the under mediant, or third below the keynote; the superdominant.

The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.

tation parchment, and of nitroglycerin. It is also used in etching iron, in removing iron scale from forgings, in petroleum refining, etc., and in general its manufacture is the most important and fundamental of all the chemical industries. Formerly called vitriolic acid, and now popularly vitriol, and oil of vitriol.…

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.