Webster's Dictionary 1828

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SCALABLE

SCA'LABLE, adjective That may be sealed.

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SCALADE

SCALA'DE,SCALA'DO, noun [Latin scala, a latter. See Scale.]A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also...

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SCALADO

SCALA'DO, n. [L. scala, a latter. See Scale.]A storm or assault on a fortified place, in which the soldiers enter the place by means of ladders. It is written also escalade.

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SCALARY

SCA'LARY, adjective Resembling a ladder; formed with steps. [Little used.]

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SCALD

SCALD, verb transitive [Latin caleo, caida, calidus. I suppose the primary sense of caleo is to contract, to draw, to make hard.]1. To burn or painfully affect and injure by imm...

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SCALDED

SCALD'ED, participle passive Injured by a hot liquor; exposed to boiling heat.

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SCALDER

SCALD'ER, noun A scald; a Scandinavian poet.

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SCALDHEAD

SCALD'HEAD, noun [See Scald.] A lothesome affection of the head, in which it is covered with a continuous scab.

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SCALDIC

SCALD'IC, adjective Pertaining to the scalds or poets of antiquity; composed by scalds.

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SCALDING

SCALD'ING, participle present tense1. Burning or injuring by hot liquor.2. Exposing to a boiling heat in liquor.

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SCALDING-HOT

SCALD'ING-HOT, adjective So hot as to scald the skin.

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SCALE

SCALE, noun [Latin id. If the sense is to strip, it coincides with the Gr. to spoil.]1. The dish of a balance; and hence, the balance itself, or whole instrument; as, to turn th...

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SCALE-STONE

SCA'LE-STONE, noun A rare mineral, called also tafelspath and tabular spar, occurring in masses composed of thin lamins collected into large prismatic concretions or hexahedral ...

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SCALED

SCA'LED, participle passive1. Ascended by ladders or steps; cleared of scales; pared; scattered.2.adjective Having scales like a fish; squamous; as a scaled snake.

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SCALELESS

SCA'LELESS, adjective Destitute of scales.

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SCALENE

SCALE'NE,SCALE'NOUS, adjective [Gr. oblique, unequal.]A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.SCALE'NE, noun a scalene triangle.

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SCALENOUS

SCALE'NOUS, a. [Gr. oblique, unequal.]A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.

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SCALINESS

SCA'LINESS, noun [from scaly.] the state of being scaly; roughness.

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SCALING

SCA'LING, participle present tense1. Ascending by ladders or steps; storming.2. Stripping of scales.3. Peeling; paring.

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SCALING-LADDER

SCA'LING-LADDER, noun a ladder made for enabling troops to scale a wall.

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SCALL

SCALL, noun [See Scald and Scaldhead.]Scab; scabbiness; leprosy.It is a dry scall even a leprosy on the head. Leviticus 13:30.

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SCALLION

SCAL'LION, noun [ascalonia.]a plant of the genus Allium; a variety of the common onion, which never forms a bulb at the root.

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SCALLOP

SCAL'LOP, noun [This is from the root of shell, scale; coinciding with scalp.]1. A shell fish, or rather a genus of shell fish, called pecten. The shell is bivalvular, the hinge...

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SCALP

SCALP, noun [Latin scalpo.]1. The skin of the top of the head; as a hairless scalp2. The skin of the top of the head cut or torn off. A scalp among the Indians of America is a t...

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SCALPED

SCALP'ED, participle passive Deprived of the skin of the head.

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SCALPEL

SCALP'EL, noun [Latin scalpellum, from scalpo, to scrape.]In surgery, a knife used in anatomical dissections and surgical operations.

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SCALPER

SCALP'ER,SCALP'ING, participle present tense Depriving of the skin of the top of the head.