Word Meanings - SCALED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove. Scaled dove , any American dove of the genus Scardafella. Its colored feather tips resemble scales. (more info) 1. Covered with scales,

Additional info about word: SCALED

Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove. Scaled dove , any American dove of the genus Scardafella. Its colored feather tips resemble scales. (more info) 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.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• SCALABLE
  Capable of being scaled.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• AMERICANIZATION
  The process of Americanizing.
• SCALAR
  In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.
• SCALARIFORM
  Like or pertaining to a scalaria. (more info) 1. Resembling a ladder in form or appearance; having transverse bars or markings like the rounds of a ladder; as, the scalariform cells and scalariform pits in some plants.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SCALLOP
  Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidæ. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor
• SCALY
  Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem. Scaly ant-eater , the pangolin. (more info) 1. Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish. "Scaly crocodile." Milton. 2. Resembling scales,
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• NASCAL
  A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• GUNTER'S SCALE
  A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
• MESCAL
  A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from