scalent

[SCALE, (3), υ.] Geol .: Climbing; applied in the nomenclature of the Appal a chi an strata to a series of rocks, equivments of the On and aga salt and water-lime groups New York, produced in the high morning period of the American Palæozoic day. Its maximum II. Technically : 1. Metall .: A preliminary proce in the manufacture of tin plate. The rectangular plates are bent so as to stand when placed on edge, pickled in dilute muriatic acid, heated in a furnace to remove the scale, cooled, flattened on an anvil, and rolled cold. †2. Naut .: A term formerly applied to the proce of adjusting sights to the guns on shipboard. scaling-bar, s. Steam: A rod for detaching scale in boilers. scaling-furnace, s. Metall.: A reverberatory furnace in which plates are exposed in the proce of scaling. scaling-hammer, s. Steam : A hammer with an edge peen, used in loosening scale formed in steam-boilers. scal-ing (2), pr. par. or a. [SCALE, v. ]