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SCALES
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived on a plot of land with a hut, from northern Middle English sc(h)ole ‘hut’, ‘shed’ (see Scales) + croft ‘small enclosed field’.
Boy/Male
Indian
Balance, Scales
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for someone who used a balance (scales), Anglo-French and Middle English balaunce, from Old French balance.
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly northern)
English (mainly northern) : habitational name from any of various minor places, in Lancashire and elsewhere, named from Middle English sc(h)ole ‘hut’ (see Scales) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’.
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Balance; Scales
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
Henry VI, Part 2' Lord Scales.
Boy/Male
Muslim
Balance, Scales
Boy/Male
Muslim
Balance, Scales
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Male
Portuguese
Galician-Portuguese form of Latin Eugenius, UXÃO means "well born."
Boy/Male
Scottish
Son of Ewen.
Girl/Female
Muslim
Beloved
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit, Traditional
One who Increase Victory; Conqueror of the Army
Biblical
enchanter
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Garrett.
Male
English
Form of Alfred
Male
Babylonian
, their brother.
Boy/Male
German
Army man; soldier. Famous Bearer: romantic actor Armand Assante.
Boy/Male
English
Ax ruler.
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a.
Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
n.
One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish.
a.
Adapted for removing scales, as from a fish; as, a scaling knife; adapted for removing scale, as from the interior of a steam boiler; as, a scaling hammer, bar, etc.
n.
Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, belonging to the genus Ostracion, or the family Ostraciontidae, having an angular body covered with a rigid integument consisting of bony scales. Some of the species are called also coffer fish, and boxfish.
n.
An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher.
v. t.
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
v. i.
To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales.
a.
Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
a.
Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
v. t.
To divest of scales; to remove scales from.
a.
Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
v. i.
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
n.
A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They are hydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kind of mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out into wormlike forms.
n.
Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.
n.
One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
a.
Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
n.
Any one of numerous species of lizards of the family Scincidae or tribe Scincoidea. The tongue is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.
v. t.
To strip or clear of scale or scales; as, to scale a fish; to scale the inside of a boiler.
a.
Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
a.
Destitute of scales.