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Scalaria
- - Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Scalaria, or family Scalaridae, having elongated spiral turreted shells, with rounded whorls, usually crossed by ribs or varices. The color is generally white or pale. Called also ladder shell, and wentletrap. See Ptenoglossa, and Wentletrap.
Scalawag
- noun - a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction policies after the American Civil War (usually for self-interest)
- one who is playfully mischievous
Scalding
- verb - burn with a hot liquid or steam; "She scalded her hands when she turned on the faucet and hot water came out"
- heat to the boiling point; "scald the milk"
- subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"
- treat with boiling water; "scald tomatoes so that they can be peeled"
Scale Up
- verb - increase proportionally; "scale up the model"
Scalenus
- noun - any of four pairs of muscles extending from the cervical vertebrae to the second rib; involved in moving the neck and in breathing
Scaliest
- adjective - having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
- rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
Scalings
- noun - act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale
- ascent by or as if by a ladder
- the act of arranging in a graduated series
Scallion
- noun - A shallot or undeverdeveloped onion bulb.
- a young onion before the bulb has enlarged; eaten in salads
- plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
Scallops
- noun - bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
- decorate an edge with scallops; "the dress had a scalloped skirt"
- edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
- edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
- fish for scallops
- form scallops in; "scallop the meat"
- one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress"
- thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled