- noun
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- any of the thin overlapping plates of hard material covering the skin of many fish and reptiles [Barron]
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- an instrument or machine for weighing
- an estimate of the amount of sound lumber in logs or standing timber
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- Wiktionary:
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- WordNet:
- scale @ wordnet.princeton.edu
- Merriam-Webster Online:
- scale @ M-W.com
- MSN Encarta:
- scale @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- scale @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
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