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Scale [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The dish of a balance; and hence, the balance itself, or whole instrument; as, to turn the scale

2. Long time in even scale the battle hung.

3. But in general, we use the plural, scales, for the whole instrument.

4. The scales are turn'd; her kindness weights no more now than my vows.

5. The sign of the balance or Libra, in the zodiac.

6. The small shell or crust which composes a part of the covering of a fish; and hence, any thin layer or leaf exfoliated or separated; a thin lamin; as scales of iron or of bone.

7. The scales of fish consist of alternate layers of membrane and phosphate of lime. The scales of serpents are composed of a horny membrane, without the calcarious phosphate.

8. A ladder; series of steps; means of ascending. [Latin scala.]

9. The art of storming a place by mounting the wall on ladders; an escalade, or scalade.

10. A mathematical instrument of wood or metal, on which are marked line and figures for the purpose of measuring distances, extent or proportions; as a plain scale; a diagonal scale

11. Regular gradation; a series rising by steps or degrees like those of a ladder. Thus we speak of the scale of being, in which man occupies a higher rank than brutes, and angels a higher rank than man.

12. Any instrument, figure or scheme, graduated for the purpose of measuring extent or proportions as a map drawn by a scale of half an inch to a league.

13. In music, a gamut; a diagram; or a series of lines and spaces rising one above another, on which notes are placed; or a scale consists of the regular gradations of sounds. A scale may be limited to an octave, called by the Greeks a tetrachord, or it may extend to the compass of any voice or instrument.

14. Any thing graduated or marked with degrees at equal distances.

Scale [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To separate and come off in thin layers or lamins.

2. The old shells of the lobster scale off.

Scale [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To climb, as by a ladder; to ascend by steps; and applied to the walls of a fortified place, to mount in assault or storm.

2. Oft have I scal'd the craggy oak.

3. [from scale a balance.] To measure; to compare; to weight.

4. [from scale the covering of a fish.] to strip or clear of scales; as, to scale a fish.

5. To take off in thin lamins or scales.

6. To pare off a surface.

7. If all the mountains were scaled, and the earth made even -

8. In the north of England, to spread, as manure or loose substances; also, to disperse; to waste.

9. In gunnery, to clean the inside of a cannon by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

Scale [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus for weighing. Also used figuratively.

2. The sign or constellation Libra.

3. One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid.

4. Hence, any layer or leaf of metal or other material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.

5. One of the small scalelike structures covering parts of some invertebrates, as those on the wings of Lepidoptera and on the body of Thysanura; the elytra of certain annelids. See Lepidoptera.

6. A scale insect. (See below.)

7. A small appendage like a rudimentary leaf, resembling the scales of a fish in form, and often in arrangement; as, the scale of a bud, of a pine cone, and the like. The name is also given to the chaff on the stems of ferns.

8. The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.

9. An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.

10. The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings. It consists essentially of the magnetic oxide, Fe3O4. Also, a similar coating upon other metals.

11. A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.

12. Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.

13. A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.

14. A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.

15. A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.

16. The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.

17. Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.

18. Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.

Scale [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.

2. To separate; to scatter.

3. To lead up by steps; to ascend.

Scale [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.

2. To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.

3. To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.

4. To scatter; to spread.

5. To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.

6. To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.

Scale-stone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A rare mineral, called also tafelspath and tabular spar, occurring in masses composed of thin lamins collected into large prismatic concretions or hexahedral prisms. It color is grayish or pearly white, tinged with green, yellow or red.

Scale-winged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.

Scaleback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.

Scalebeam [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.

2. A weighing apparatus with a sliding weight, resembling a steelyard.

Scaleboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.

2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.

Scaled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having scales like a fish; squamous; as a scaled snake.

Scaled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Ascended by ladders or steps; cleared of scales; pared; scattered.

Scaled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.

2. Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.

3. Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.

Scaled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Scale

Scaleless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Destitute of scales.

Scaleless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Destitute of scales.

Scalene [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SCALE'NE ,

2. SCALE'NOUS, adjective [Gr. oblique, unequal.]

3. A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.

Scalene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

a scalene triangle.

Scalene [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Having the sides and angles unequal; -- said of a triangle.

2. Having the axis inclined to the base, as a cone.

3. Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.

4. Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.

Scalene [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A triangle having its sides and angles unequal.

Scalenohedral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.

Scalenohedron [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.

Scaler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.

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Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

Leviticus 11:9

These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.

Leviticus 11:10

And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.

Leviticus 11:12

Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.

Leviticus 19:36

Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 14:9

These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,

Deuteronomy 14:10

And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

2 Samuel 22:30

For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.

For in You I can charge an army; with my God I can scale a wall.

Job 6:2

O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.

Job 31:6

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

Job 41:15

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Job 41:16

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.

Psalms 18:29

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

For in You I can charge an army, and with my God I can scale a wall.

Psalms 62:9

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

Proverbs 11:1

A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.

Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.

Proverbs 16:11

A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Honest scales and balances are from the LORD; all the weights in the bag are His concern.

Proverbs 20:23

Divers weights are an abomination unto the LORD; and a false balance is not good.

Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.

Proverbs 21:22

A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

A wise man scales the city of the mighty and pulls down the stronghold in which they trust.

Isaiah 40:12

Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?

Isaiah 40:15

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered a speck of dust on the scales; He lifts up the islands like fine dust.