Scale

skAl, n. the dish of a balance a balance— chiefly in pi. //. Libra. one of the agns of the zodiac (A.S u.alu, a balance. It is simply a form of Scale, a thin plate.] Scaled, skald, adj having scales- Scalene, ska-fen', cutj. geom having tlitce unequal sides — a scalene triangle Tlat ‘limping, hr. —J, scah nits —Gr. shadnos, uneven, fiom root of ska^d, to limp.] Scall, skavvl, [} a scab: scabbine (A.S scalu scale simply a form of Scale, a thin plate.] Scallop, skol'up, n a bivalvular shell-f\A\, having the edge of its shell in the form uf a series of curve-*: one of a scries of curves m the edge of anything — / to cut the edge m linn Ur into scallops or curves lO Ft escalope from Gei sthale, shell See Scale, a shell Scalp, skalp, skin of the head on which the hair grows the skin of the lop of iht In ad tom oil as a token of victory by the N. Aimrm.m Indians - 1 t to cut the scalp fiom, [Prub from Ice. skal a skull, modified by (on fusion with L scalpo, to cut, akin to Scalo, shell, and Shell Scalpel, skalp'el, a small surgn d knife for di ecting and operating L scalpodutn, dun. of suitPram, a knifescalpo, to cut Scaly, skal'i, ad/, covered with Antics like scales •for formed of scales, -n Scal'ine . Scammony, skam'o-ni, cathartic gum-resin obtained from a species of convolvulus m Asia Minor [Or skamot/la Scamp, skamp. a vagabond a mean fellow — v.t. in phrase to suimp work, to d dishonestly, without thoroughne . rom Scamper, Scamper, skamp'er, v to run with speed and trepidation. [Lit. ‘to quit the field,' O Fr. escampa— L. ex, out of, from, and campus field cf. Decamp