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ts of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.

Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.

One who fishes for scallops.

Fishing for scallops.

See Escalop.

See Escaloped.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

The state of being minutely scalloped.

A scalloped or "pattypan" variety of summer squash.

in English usage, a side dish, served with a joint, or between the courses, as a cutlet, scalloped oysters, etc.

A bivalve shell of the genus Pecten. See Scallop.

Cut or marked in the form of an escalop; scalloped.

other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.

r heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaulting. -- Fan vaulting (Arch.), an elaborate system of vaulting, in which the ribs diverge somewhat like the rays of a fan, as in Henry VII.…

of bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten, and numerous allied genera (family Pectinidæ); a scallop. See Scallop.

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge. Shak.

hod of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]

A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food. [Prov. Eng.]

e gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Oötheca. Ruffle of a boot, the top turned down, and scalloped or plaited. Halliwell.