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- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - The sign or constellation Libra.
- Scale - v. t. - To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - A scale insect. (See below.)
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife. See Illust. of Pocketknife.
- Scale - n. - An incrustation deposit on the inside of a vessel in which water is heated, as a steam boiler.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - v. t. - To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
- Scale - v. t. - To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- Scale - v. t. - To scatter; to spread.
- Scale - v. t. - To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- Scale - v. i. - To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
- Scale - v. i. - To separate; to scatter.
- Scale - n. - A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending.
- Scale - n. - Hence, anything graduated, especially when employed as a measure or rule, or marked by lines at regular intervals.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Scale - n. - Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
- Scale - n. - 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.
- Beneath - prep. - Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence: Unworthy of; unbecoming.
- Kermes - n. - The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
- Scale - v. t. - To weigh or measure according to a scale; to measure; also, to grade or vary according to a scale or system.
- Tenor - n. - The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
- Temper - v. t. - To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
- Sector - n. - A mathematical instrument, consisting of two rulers connected at one end by a joint, each arm marked with several scales, as of equal parts, chords, sines, tangents, etc., one scale of each kind on each arm, and all on lines radiating from the common center of motion. The sector is used for plotting, etc., to any scale.
- Iron - n. - The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms; viz., cast iron, steel, and wrought iron. Iron usually appears dark brown, from oxidation or impurity, but when pure, or on a fresh surface, is a gray or white metal. It is easily oxidized (rusted) by moisture, and is attacked by many corrosive agents. Symbol Fe (Latin Ferrum). Atomic weight 55.9. Specific gravity, pure iron, 7.86; cast iron, 7.1. In magnetic properties, it is superior to all other substances.
- Makeweight - n. - That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
- Hepatic - a. - Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticae, or scale mosses and liverworts.
- Mental - n. - A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.
- Indusium - n. - The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.
- Descent - n. - A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
- Scale - v. t. - To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
- Reading - n. - An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
- Scaphocerite - n. - A flattened plate or scale attached to the second joint of the antennae of many Crustacea.
- Tetrachord - n. - A scale series of four sounds, of which the extremes, or first and last, constituted a fourth. These extremes were immutable; the two middle sounds were changeable.
- Counterscale - n. - Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another.
- Pitch - n. - The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
- Protract - v. t. - To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
- Cupola - n. - A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also, a ceiling having the same form. When on a large scale it is usually called dome.
- Mi - n. - A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.
- Flake - v. i. - To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
- Octave - n. - The whole diatonic scale itself.
- Clef - n. - A character used in musical notation to determine the position and pitch of the scale as represented on the staff.
- Temperament - v. t. - A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C/ becoming identical with D/, and so on.
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- H5927 עָלָה - 5927 עָלָה - עָלָה - - ʻâlâh - aw-law' - a primitive root; to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative; arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, [phrase] shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, [idiom] mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, [phrase] perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work. - Verb - heb
- H650 אָפִיק - 650 אָפִיק - אָפִיק - - ʼâphîyq - aw-feek' - from אָסַף; properly, containing, i.e. a tube; also a bed or valley of astream; also a strong thing or a hero; brook, channel, mighty, river, [phrase] scale, stream, strong piece. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H239 אָזַן - 239 אָזַן - אָזַן - - ʼâzan - aw-zan' - a primitive root (rather identical with אָזַן through the idea of scales as if two ears); to weigh, i.e. (figuratively) ponder; give good heed. - Verb - heb
- H2636 חַסְפַּס - 2636 חַסְפַּס - חַסְפַּס - - chaçpaç - khas-pas' - reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel; a shred or scale; round thing. - Verb - heb
- G3013 λεπίς - 3013 λεπίς - ΛΕΠΊΣ - - lepís - lep-is' - from (to peel); a flake:--scale. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G3016 λεπτόν - 3016 λεπτόν - ΛΕΠΤΌΝ - - leptón - lep-ton' - neuter of a derivative of the same as λεπίς; something scaled (light), i.e. a small coin:--mite. - Adjective - greek
- H4043 מָגֵן - 4043 מָגֵן - מָגֵן - - mâgên - maw-gane' - also (in plural) feminine מְגִנָּה; from גָּנַן; a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile; [idiom] armed, buckler, defence, ruler, [phrase] scale, shield. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3976 מֹאזֵן - 3976 מֹאזֵן - מֹאזֵן - - môʼzên - mo-zane' - from אָזַן; (only in the dual) a pair of scales; balances. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H3977 מֹאזֵן - 3977 מֹאזֵן - מֹאזֵן - - môʼzên - mo-zane' - (Aramaic) corresponding to מֹאזֵן; {(only in the dual) a pair of scales}; balances. - Noun Masculine - arc
- H6425 פֶּלֶס - 6425 פֶּלֶס - פֶּלֶס - - peleç - peh'-les - from פָּלַס; a balance; scales, weight. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H7193 קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת - 7193 קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת - קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת - - qasqeseth - kas-keh'-seth - by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark; a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal); mail, scale. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H7827 שְׁחֵלֶת - 7827 שְׁחֵלֶת - שְׁחֵלֶת - - shᵉchêleth - shekh-ay'-leth - lemma שְׁחֶלֶת second vowel, corrected to שְׁחֵלֶת; apparently from the same as שַׁחַל through some obscure idea, perhaps that of peeling off by concussion of sound; a scale or shell, i.e. the aromatic mussel.; onycha. - Noun Feminine - heb
- G2218 ζυγός - 2218 ζυγός - ΖΥΓΌΣ - - zygós - dzoo-gos' - from the root of (to join, especially by a "yoke"); a coupling, i.e. (figuratively) servitude (a law or obligation); also (literally) the beam of the balance (as connecting the scales):--pair of balances, yoke. - Noun Masculine - greek
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- Deuteronomy 5 14:9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
אָכַל מַיִם סְנַפִּיר קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת אָכַל - Ezekiel 26 29:4 But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
נָתַן חָח חָח לְחִי דָּגָה יְאֹר דָּבַק קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת עָלָה תָּוֶךְ יְאֹר דָּגָה יְאֹר דָּבַק קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת - Acts 44 9:18 And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
ΚΑΊ ΕὐΘΈΩΣ ἈΠΟΠΊΠΤΩ ἈΠΌ ΑὐΤΌΣ ὈΦΘΑΛΜΌΣ ὩΣΕΊ ΛΕΠΊΣ ἈΝΑΒΛΈΠΩ ΠΑΡΑΧΡῆΜΑ ΤΈ ἈΝΊΣΤΗΜΙ ΚΑΊ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ - Leviticus 3 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
סְנַפִּיר קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת מַיִם שֶׁקֶץ - Leviticus 3 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:
סְנַפִּיר קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת יָם נַחַל שֶׁרֶץ מַיִם חַי נֶפֶשׁ מַיִם שֶׁקֶץ