Scale: alternatives and connections

To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.

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To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judg…

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A paling; a hurdle.

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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It.

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One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, th…

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To retch.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.

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Six.

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A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.

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Taken.

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Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed…

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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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An apparatus for weighing.

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Dandruff or scurf on the head.

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A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.

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The scale.

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A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.

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That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not exten…

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A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

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Same as Squamula.

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A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating part…

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A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales.

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To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

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To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

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of Scale

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of Scale

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of Scale

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of Scale

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Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

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Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.

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To butt; to push with the horns.

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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.

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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…

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Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

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A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.

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