A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
A Canadian person.
The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Tea leaves.
In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
Cannabis.
To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
A device to measure mass or weight.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
Limescale.
Size; scope.
Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
A standard amount of money to be received by a performer or writer, negotiated by a union.
A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
A scale insect.
An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement, means of assigning a magnitude.
The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
To climb to the top of.
To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
To scatter; to spread.
To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
To remove the scales of.