Scale

skal, n. A ladder; series of steps; anything graduated, esp. when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines or degrees at regular intervals. {3lus.) The gamut, or graduating series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave. Gradation; scheme of comparative rank or order; relative dimensions, without^ difference in proportion of parts.— v. t. [scaled (skald), a. scaling.] To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; n. to clamber up.— Scalade', -lad', n. {Mil.) An a ault on a besieged place with lad- / ders to mount the walls; an escalade. / — Scalene, ska-lenr, a. {Geom.) Having the / sides and angles unequal, — said of a tri- / angle; having the axis inclined to the / base, as a cone. — n. {Geom.) A triangle / having its sides and angles unequal. / Scall. See Scald, scurf. / Scallion, skal'yun, n. A plant, which grows £___ i a. about Ascalon, in Palestine: it is allied to Sealene the garlic and onion. Triangle Scallop, skol'lup, n. A marine shell-fish or bivalve mollusk, often used for food: the shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land; a curving of of the edge of anything, like the segment of a circle: a kind of dish for baking oysters in. — v. t. [scalloped To (-lupt), -loping.] To mark or cut the edge or border of into segments of circles. — Scal'loped, -lupt, a. Made n. or done with or in a scallop; or border cut Scallop Shell. or having marked the with edge segments of circles.— Scalloped oysters. {Cookery.) Oysters baked with crumbs of bread strewed over the surface: this was, at first, done in or scallop shells, and afterwards in a dish called a scallop. — Scalp, skalp, n. That part of the integument of the head usually covered with hair; the skin of the head, or a part of it, with the hair belonging to; it, torn off, as by Indian warriors, as a token of victory over an enemy.— v. t. [scalped (skalpt), scalping.] To deprive of the scalp, or integuments of the head.