scaling 
scaling- (ska'ling), n. [Verbal n. of scute-, </] 
The process of adjusting sights to the guns on 
board of a ship. 
scaling-bar (sKa'ling-bttr), . A bar or rod for 
removing the incrustation or scale from heat- 
ing-surfaces, as from the surface of a steam- 
boiler. 
SCaling-furnace(ska'ling-fer' / nas), H. Iiimi-tiil., 
a furnace or oven in which plates of iron are 
heated for the purpose of scaling them, as in 
the preparation of plates for tinning. 
scaling-hammer (ska'ling-ham"er), n. A ham- 
mer for the removal of scale. 
scaling-knife (ska'ling-nlf), . A knife used 
to remove scales from fish. It is sometimes 
made with a serrated edge. 
scaling-ladder (ska'liug-lad"er), H. 1. A lad- 
der used for the escalade of an enemy's fortress. 
Besides an ordinary ladder with hooks at the upper end 
and similar fittings, which is the common kind, scaling- 
ladders have been made with braces to support them at 
the proper angle and wheels by which the whole structure 
was run close up to the walls. They are now used chiefly 
for descending the height of the counterscarp Into the 
ditch. 
2. In her., a bearing representing a ladder hav- 
ingtwo pointed hooks at the tops of the uprights 
and two pointed ferrules at the bottom. 3. 
A firemen's ladder used for scaling buildings. 
See ladder. 
scaling-machine (ska'ling-ma-shen"), H. Same 
as sealer, 2. 
scaliola, n. See scagliola. 
scall (skal), n. [Early mod. E. also skull, ska I, 
scaule ; < ME. skalle, scalte, scalde. a scab, scab- 
biness, eruption (generally used of the head), < 
Icel. skalli, a bald head; of. skollottr, bald- 
headed; Sw. skallig, bald, lit. having a smooth 
roundish head, like a shell, < Icel. *skal, Sw. 
Dan. skal, a husk, shell, pod, = AS. seealu, 
sceale, a shell-husk (cf. F. tele, a head, ult. 
< L. testa, a shell) : see scale 1 . Cf. scalled.'] 
1. A scaly eruption on the skin; scab; scurf; 
scabbiuess. 
Under thy longe lockes thou maist have the scalle, 
But after my making thou write more trewe. 
Chaucer, Scrivener, 1. 3. 
It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head. 
Lev. xiii. 30. 
2. In mining, loose ground; rock which easily 
becomes loosened, on account of its scaly or 
foliated structure. [Cornwall, Eng.] Dry scall, 
psoriasis, scabies, and other cutaneous affections. Moist 
scall, eczema. Compare scald?, n. 
scallt (skal), a. [Abbr. or misprint of scallecl.~] 
Mean; paltry. 
To be revenge on this same scall, scurvy, cogging com- 
panion. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 1. 123. 
scallawag, . See scalawag. 
scalled, scald'-* (skald), a. [< ME. scalled, 
skalled; < scall + -ed 1 *. Prob. in part dependent 
on the orig. noun, < Sw. Dan. skal, etc., shell (see 
scale*); cf. Dan. skaldel, bald.] 1. Scabby; af- 
fected with scald: as, a scald head. 
With scaled browes blake and piled berd. 
Chaucer, Gen. 1'rol. to C. T., 1. 627. 
If [she have] a fat hand and scald nails, let her carve the 
less, and act in gloves. B. Jonson, Epiccene, iv. 1. 
Hence 2. Scurvy; mean; paltry; wretched; 
contemptible. 
Would it not grieve a King ... to have his diadem 
Sought for by such scald Knaves as love him not? 
Marlowe, Taraburlaine the Great, I., ii. 2. 
Other news I am aduertised of, that a scald trivial lying 
pamphlet, cald Greens Groatsworth of Wit, is given out 
to be of my doing. 
Nashe, quoted in Int. to Pierce Fenllesse, p. xv. 
Your gravity once laid 
My head and heels together in the dungeon, 
For cracking a scald officer's crown. 
Fletcher (and others), Bloody Brother, i. 1. 
Scald crow, the hooded crow. 
scallion (skal'yon), n. [Formerly called, more 
fully, seal-lion onion; early mod. E. also skallion, 
scalion ; < ME. scalt/oii, scalone (also scalier) = 
D. sehalonge = It. scalogna (Florio), scalogno 
= Sp. ascalonia, escalona, < L. Ascalonia csepa, 
ML. ascalonia, or ascalonitim (so. allium), the 
onion of Ascalou; fern, or neut. of Ascalonius, 
of Ascalon, < Ascalo(n-),- < Gr. 'Am&fav, Asca- 
lon in Palestine. Cf. shallot, from the same 
source.] The shallot, Allium Ascalonicum, espe- 
cially a variety majiis; also, the leek, and the 
common onion when sown thick so as not to 
form a large bulb. 
Ac ich haue porett-plontes perselye and scalones, 
Chibolesand chiruylles and chines sam-rede. 
Pier* Plowman (C), ix. 310. 
Slvot, a scallion, a hollow or vnset Leeke. Cotgrave. 
Let Peter Onion (by the infernal gods) be turned to a 
leek, or a scalliun. B. Junmn. Case is Altered, iv. :i. 
Scallop (fftntn'fff 
pusio). 
5371 
SCallion-facedt (skal'vim-fast), a. Having ;i 
mean, scurvy face or appearance. 
His father's diet was new cheese and onions, . . . what 
a scallion-Saced rascal 'tis ! 
Fletcher (and another), Love's Cure, ii. 1. 
scallop (skol'- or skal'op), n. [Also scollop, and 
formerly scollup, early mod. E. scaloppe (also 
in more technical use escallop, cscalop) ; < ME. 
scalop, skaloji, < OF. escalope, a shell, < MD. 
schelpe, D. schelp = LG. seltelpe, sclnilpe, a 
shelf, esp. a scallop-shell: see scalp 1 ."] 1. A 
bivalve mollusk of the fam- 
ily Pectinidae; any pecten. 
There are many species, recent 
and fossil, among them Pecten 
maximus, of great size, and P. jaco- 
bieus, the St. James's shell. They 
are used for food and for other pur- 
poses. A common scallop of the 
Atlantic coast of the United States 
is P. irradians. P. tenuicostattts 
is a large species of the United 
States, used for food, and its shells 
for domestic utensils. Ilinnites //" - 
sio is a different style of scallop from 
these, very prettily marked. See 
also cut under Pectinidx. 
Oceanus . . . sits triumphantly in the vast (but queint) 
shell of a siluer scollup, reyning in the heads of two wild 
sea-horses. 
Dekker, London's Tempc (Works, ed. Pearson, IV. 119). 
And luscious 'Scallops to allure the Tastes 
Of rigid Zealots to delicious fasts. 
Gay, Trivia, 11. 417. 
2. One of the valves of a scallop or pecten ; a 
scallop-shell, as a utensil; also, a scallop-shell 
as the badge of a pilgrim. See scallop-shell. 
My palmers hat, my scallops shell, 
My crosse, my cord, and all, farewell ! 
Herricit, On Himselfe. 
Religion . . . had grown to be with both parties a po- 
litical badge, as little typical of the inward man as the scal- 
lop of a pilgrim. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 39!). 
3. In her., the representation of a scallop. 
4. A small shallow pan in which fish, oysters, 
mince-meat, etc., are cooked, or are finally 
browned after being cooked. This was originally 
a large scallop-shell : it sometimes is so still, or is made 
in the exact form of such a shell. 
5. One of a number of small curves resembling 
segments of circles, cut by way of ornament on 
the edge of a thing, the whole simulating the 
outer edge of a scallop-shell. 
Bases and buskins cut likewise at the top into sillier 
M0MBK, 
Dekker, London's Tempe (Works, ed. Pearson, IV. 119). 
6. A lace band or collar scalloped round the 
scalp 
scallpped-hooktip (skoi'opt-huk'tip). . A 
British moth, Platypteryx laecrtula. 
scalloped-oak (skol'opt-ok), . A British geo- 
mctrid moth, OrooaUu iliiii/iniria. 
scalloper (skol'- or skal'op-er), tt. One who 
gathers scallops. Also spelled scolloper. 
The scallopers will tell you everywhere that the more 
they [scallops] are raked the mere abundant they become. 
Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 570. 
scalloping (skol'- or skal'op-ing), w. [Verbal 
n. of yea 1 1 op, r.] The act or industry of taking 
scallops. 
scalloping-tool (skol'op-ing-tol), n. In saddlery, 
a tool for forming an ornamental edge on lea- 
ther straps. 
Scallop-moth (skol'op-moth), w. A collectors' 
name in England for certain geometrid moths. 
Seodiona belgiaria is the gray scallop-moth. 
scallop-net (skol'op-net), n. A small dredge- 
like net used for taking scallops. [New Bed- 
ford, Massachusetts.] 
scallop-shell (skol'op-shel), . [Also eseallop- 
shell; early mod. E. xcaloppe-shell ; < scallop + 
shell. ] 1 . A scallop, or the shell or valve of one . 
The scallop-shell was the badge of a pilgrim. 
Compare cockle-shell. 
And in thy hand retaining yet 
The pilgrim's staff and scallop-xhell ! 
WhiUier, Daniel Wheeler. 
2. A British geometrid moth, Eucosmia ttiiilu- 
lata. 
scallyt (ska'li), a. [< scall + -yi.] Scalled : 
scurfy; scald. 
Over its eyes there are two hard scally knobs, as big as 
a man's fist. Dam-pier, Voyages, an. 1676. 
scalma (skal'ma), n. [NL., < OHG. scalmo, 
scelmo, pestilence, contagion: see schelm.] An 
obscure disease of horses, recently (1885) de- 
scribed and named by Professor Dieckerhoff of 
Berlin . It manifests itself by coughing, difficult breath- 
ing, paleness of the mucous membranes, loss of strength, 
fever, and more rarely pieuritis. The disease is more or 
less contagious in stables. Recovery takes place within 
three or four weeks. 
scalonet, A Middle English form of scallion. 
scalopt, A Middle English form of scallop. 
Scalops (ska'lops), n. [NL. (Cuvier, 1800), < 
Gr. cmi/lo^, a mole, < maU.ew, stir up, dig.] A 
genus of American shrew-moles of the subfam- 
ily Talpinep, having the median upper incisors 
Made myself fine with Capt. Ferrers' lace band, being 
lothe to weal* my own new scallop, it is so tine. 
Pepys, Diary, Oct. 12, 1662. 
Scallop budding, in hori., a method of budding per- 
formed by paring a thin tongue-shaped section of bark 
from the stock, and applying the bud without divesting it 
of its portion of wood, so that the harks of both may ex- 
actly fit, and then tying it in the usual way. 
scallop (skol'- or skal'op), v. t. [Also scollop 
(also in more technical use escallop) ; < scallop, 
n.] 1. To mark or cut the edge of into convex 
rounded lobes, (a) Regularly, as for ornamental pur- 
poses. Compare invected. (b) Irregularly, in a general 
sense. See the quotation. 
Have I for this with labour strove, 
And lavish M all my little store, 
To fence for you my shady grove, 
And scollop every winding shore? 
Shenstone, Ode after Sickness. 
2. To cook in a scallop; hence, specifically, to 
' th crumbs, seasoning, and 
on the top : as, to scallop 
/V, J. \J WVA iii Oi BVOUV 
prepare by mixing with crumbs, seasoning.'and 
baking until browned 
fish or meat. 
The shell [of the scallop Pecten maximus] is often used 
for scalloping oysters. E. P. Wright, Anim. Life, p. 555. 
scallop-crab (skol'op-krab), . A kind of pea- 
crab, Pinnotheres pectinicola, inhabiting scal- 
lops. 
scalloped (skol'- or skal'opt), )>. a. [Also scol- 
loped ; < scallop + -ed 2 .] 1. Furnished with a 
scallop; made or done with a scallop. 2. Cut 
at the edge or border into segments of circles. 
A wide surbased arch with scalloped ornaments. 
Gray, To Mason. (Latham.) 
3. In her., same as escalloped. 
It may be known that Monteth was a gentleman with 
a scalloped coat. W. King, Art of Cookery, Letter v. 
4. In l>ot., same as crenate^, 1 (a). 5. Cooked in 
a scallop. Scalloped kalanchoe. See Kalanchoe, 1. 
Scalloped oysters, oysters baked with bread-crumbs, 
cream, pepper, salt, nutmeg, and a little butter. This 
was at first literally done in distinct scallop-shells, and 
afterward in a dish for the purpose called a scallop. 
SCalloped-hazel (skol'opt-ha"zl), . A British 
geometrid moth, Odontopera liidentata. 
American Shrew-mole (Sralefs ayitaticits). 
enlarged and rodent-like, the nose not fringed, 
and the dental formula 3 incisors, 1 canine, 3 
premolars, and 3 molars on each side above, and 
2 incisors, no canine, 3 premolars, and 3 molars 
on each side below. It includes the common mole or 
shrew-moleof the United States, S. aquaticus, of which the 
silvery mole, S. araentatus, is a western variety. The other 
moles of the same country, formerly referred to Scalops, 
are now placed in Scapanw. See shrew-mole. 
scalp 1 (skalp), n. [Early mod. E. also skalp; < 
MET scalp, the top of the head ; cf . MD. schelpe, 
a shell, D. schelp, a shell, = LG. schelpe, sclntlp' 
= OHG. sceliva, MHG. sehclfe, G. dial, sclielfe, 
husk, scale, = Icel. skalpr, a sheath, = Sw. skulp, 
a sheath (cf. Olt. scalpo = F. scalpe, scalp, = 
G. scalp = Dan. skalp, scalp, all appar. < E. ?); 
with an appar. formative -p, from the same base 
as E. scale*, scale%, shell, and skull 1 : see scale 1 , 
scale?, shell, skulfi. Doublet of scallop, scollop, 
q. v.] If. The top of the head ; the head, skull, 
or sconce. 
The scalps of many, almost hid behind, 
To jump up higher seem'd, to mock the mind. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1413. 
2. The integument of the upper part of the 
head and associated subcutaneous structures ; 
the skin, the occipitofrontalis muscle, and its 
broad fascia-like tendon and connective tissue, 
with their vessels and nerves, together form- 
ing the covering of the skull, and freely mov- 
able upon the subjacent bones. 
