A scale insect.
A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
A device to measure mass or weight.
The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
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.
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.
The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
A gouge bit or shell bit.
A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
The onset and coda of a syllable.
A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
A psychological barrier to social interaction.
The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
An engraved copper roller used in print works.
The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
An emaciated person.
The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
The outward form independent of what is inside.
A legal entity that has no operations.
The empty outward form of someone or something.
An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
A person's ear.
Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
Any mollusk having such a covering.
A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
To form a shelling.
To switch to a shell or command line.