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Scaleback
- - Any one of numerous species of marine annelids of the family Polynoidae, and allies, which have two rows of scales, or elytra, along the back. See Illust. under Chaetopoda.
Scalebeam
- - The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.
Scaleless
- adjective - destitute of scales
Scalelike
- adjective - reduced to a small appressed thing that resembles a scale; "scalelike leaves"
Scaliness
- noun - the property of being scaly
Scallions
- 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
Scalloped
- adjective - having a margin with rounded scallops
Scalloper
- - One who fishes for scallops.
Scallywag
- 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
Scamillus
- - A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal.