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  • English Word Scaling Definition Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
  • English Word Scaling Definition Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.
  • English Word Scaliola Definition Same as Scagliola.
  • English Word Scall Definition A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
  • English Word Scall Definition Scabby; scurfy.
  • English Word Scalled Definition Scabby; scurfy; scall.
  • English Word Scallion Definition A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot.
  • English Word Scallion Definition Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek.
  • English Word Scallop Definition Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2.
  • English Word Scallop Definition One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell.
  • English Word Scallop Definition One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell.
  • English Word Scallop Definition To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles, like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. See Scallop, n., 2.
  • English Word Scallop Definition To bake in scallop shells or dishes; to prepare with crumbs of bread or cracker, and bake. See Scalloped oysters, below.
  • English Word Scalloped Definition of Scallop
  • English Word Scalloped Definition Furnished with a scallop; made or done with or in a scallop.
  • English Word Scalloped Definition Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.
  • English Word Scalloped Definition Baked in a scallop; cooked with crumbs.
  • English Word Scalloper Definition One who fishes for scallops.
  • English Word Scalloping Definition of Scallop
  • English Word Scalloping Definition Fishing for scallops.
  • English Word Scalp Definition A bed of oysters or mussels.
  • English Word Scalp Definition That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
  • English Word Scalp Definition A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.
  • English Word Scalp Definition Fig.: The top; the summit.
  • English Word Scalp Definition To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
  • English Word Scalp Definition To remove the skin of.
  • English Word Scalp Definition To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
  • English Word Scalp Definition To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
  • English Word Scalped Definition of Scalp
  • English Word Scalpel Definition A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.