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To clear of or to cover with scale or scales.

To pare down.

To surmount by climbing.

To draw to scale or measure.

To reduce according to a scale.

To come off, as scales or flakes.

To become crusted.

Any form of weighing- machine.

Zool. One of the thin, bone like, overlapping plates on the skin of fishes or reptiles.

Any incrustation, as of iron- rust; scab.

The ruled lines on a measure, or a measure so ruled; a system of fixed units of measurement; any graded series.

The succession of tones in an octave or more.

The platform or pan of a balance; also, the balance itself.