Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SCAL'ED, pp.

1. Ascended by ladders or steps; cleared of scales; pared; scattered.
2. adj. Having scales like a fish; squamous; as, a scaled snake.

SCALE'LESS, a.

Destitute of scales. S. L. Mitchill.

SCA-LENE', or SCA-LE'NOUS, a. [Gr. σκαληνος, oblique, unequal, allied, probably to σκολιος; G. schel, schiel, D. scheel, squinting; Dan. skieler, to squint.]

A scalene triangle, is one whose sides and angles are unequal.

SCA-LENE', n.

A scalene triangle.

SCAL'ER, n.

One who scales.

SCA'LI-NESS, n. [from scaly.]

The state of being scaly; roughness.

SCAL'ING, ppr.

1. Ascending by ladders or steps; storming.
2. Stripping of scales.
3. Peeling; paring.

SCAL'ING-LAD-DER, n.

A ladder made for enabling troops to scale a wall.

SCALL, n. [See Scald and Scald-head.]

Scab; scabbiness; leprosy. It is a dry scall, even a leprosy on the head. Lev. xiii.

SCAL'LION, n. [It. scalogno; L. ascalonia; Fr. echalote, whence our shalot; so named probably from its coats, shell, scale.]

A plant, the Allium Ascalonicum, which grows about Ascalon in Palestine. It is the wildest of all the cultivated species of the garlic and onion genus. It is propagated by means of the cloves of its bulbs.

SCAL'LOP, n. [This is from the root of shell, scale; coinciding with scalp, D. schulp, a shell.]

1. A testaceous molluscum called pecten. The shell is bivalvular, the hinge toothless, having a small ovated hollow. The great scallop is rugged and imbricated with scales, grows to a large size, and in some countries is taken and barreled for market. Encyc.
2. A recess or curving of the edge of any thing, like the segment of a circle; written also Scollop.

SCAL'LOP, v.t.

To mark or cut the edge or border of any thing into segments of circles. Gray.

SCAL'LOP-ED, pp.

Cut at the edge or border into segments of circles.

SCAL'LOP-ING, ppr.

Cutting the edge into segments of circles.

SCALP, n. [D. schelp or schulp, a shell. The German has hirnschale, brain-shell. See Scale. But qu. the Ch. Syr. and Ar. קלף, to peel, to bark, and L. scalpo.]

1. The skin of the top of the head; as, a hairless scalp. Shak.
2. The skin of the top of the head cut or torn off. A scalp among the Indians of America is a trophy of victory.

SCALP, v.t.

To deprive of the scalp or integuments of the head. Sharp.

SCALP'ED, pp.

Deprived of the skin of the head.

SCALP'EL, n. [L. scalpellum, from scalpo, to scrape.]

In surgery, a knife used in anatomical dissections and surgical operations. Encyc.

SCALP'ER, or SCALP'ING-IRON, n.

An instrument of surgery, used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. Encyc. Parr.

SCALP'ING, ppr.

Depriving of the skin of the top of the head.

SCALP'ING-KNIFE, n.

A knife used by savages in scalping their prisoners. Cooper.

SCAL'Y, a. [from scale.]

1. Covered or abounding with scales rough; as, a scaly fish; the scaly crocodile. Milton.
2. Resembling scales, lamina or layers.
3. In botany, composed of scales lying over each other, as a scaly bulb; having scales scattered over it, as a scaly stem. Martyn.

SCA'LY-WING-ED, a.

Having wings with scales. Kirby.

SCAM'BLE, v.i. [D. schommelen, to stir, to shake.]

1. To stir quick; to be busy; to scramble; to be bold or turbulent. Shak.
2. To shift awkwardly. More.

SCAM'BLE, v.t.

To mangle; to maul. Mortimer.