scalariform

[Lat. scalar is =pertaining to a ladder or stairs, and form a =form.] Having the shape or form of a ladder; resembling a ladder. scalariform-ve els, s. pl. Botany: Ladder-like ve els occurring chiefly in ferns. *scā-lar-ỹ, adj . [Lat. scalar is , from scala =a ladder, stairs.] Resembling a ladder; proceeding by steps like those of a ladder. "Elevated places and scalary ascents, that they might with better ease ascend or mount their horses." - Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. v., ch. xiii. scăl-a-wăg, 8. [SCALLAWAG.] scâld (1), *schald, v . t. [Old French * escalder , * eschauder (Fr. échauder ), from Lat. excaldo to wash in hot water: ex- =out, very, and caldus , cal idus =hot; Sp. & Port. escaldar ; Ital. scald are . ] 1. To burn, or painfully affect, and injure, with, or as with, hot water or other liquid. 2. To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in water or other liquor. " Scalding the cream-that is, bringing it nearly to boiling-heat-will diminish the time and labor required in churning it."- Sheldon : Dairy Farming , p. 309. 3. To boil or buck cloth with white soap after 4. To burn, to scorch bleaching. "In summer's scalding heat." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt. III ., v. 7. scâld (2), *scauld, v . t . ori . [SCOLD, v .] ( Scotch .) scâld (1), s . [SCALD (1), v.] A burn or injury to are usually thin, fragile, and almost schistose, the skin from hot liquid or vapor. whence the name of scaglia. ( Quar. Jour. Geolog. Soc., vi. 429.)