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Crack Cocaine
to weigh and sell cocaine
Scale is Scottish and American slang for a coin; money.Scale is Australian and New Zealand slang for swindle, cheat, steal.Scale is Australian and New Zealand slang for ride on public transport without paying.
Go the Big Figure or Whole Figure
To go to the fullest extent in the attainment of any object, do things on a large scale.
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Scaler is Australian and New Zealand slang for a swindler or cheat. The term is especially applied to someone who rides public transport without paying the fare (in Britain a fare−dodger).
To weigh and sell cocaine
The two sets of tracks on a scale
Commonly, the term applied to an Easterner, or anyone in up-scale town clothes, rather than plain range-riding or work clothes. However, the term began as an insult, as cowboys first used the word to mean a pimple or boil on someone's backside, caused by riding in the saddle all day when one wasn't used to it. Hence, the cowboys called those "wanna-be" wrangers "dudes."
A serious hazard where cold temperatures (below about -10C) combined with high wind speed (typically force 8 or above on the Beaufort scale) result in spray blown off the sea freezing immediately on contact with the ship. If icing conditions persist, the ship can become top heavy and risk being unstable.
The scale describing wind force devised by Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort in 1808, in which winds are graded by the effect of their force (originally, the amount of sail that a fully rigged frigate could carry). Scale now reads up to Force 17.
n. A term used for cocain that is smuggled over. "If you get caught bringing over that scale you’ll be doing some serious time in Federal son."Â
mean or stingy person
To do things on on a large scale.
the swinging frame part of the scales on which a barrow of fish is placed in weighing; the “jigâ€
Small balls of lead fired from a cannon, analogous to shotgun shot but on a larger scale.
The scales used by grocers, coal-dealers, etc. Call such because the were always "lying in weight.â€
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Having feathers which in form, color, or arrangement somewhat resemble scales; as, the scaled dove.
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Designating several triangular muscles called scalene muscles.
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Of or pertaining to a scalenohedron.
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The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
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Covered with scales, or scalelike structures; -- said of a fish, a reptile, a moth, etc.
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Destitute of scales.
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Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
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A pyramidal form under the rhombohedral system, inclosed by twelve faces, each a scalene triangle.
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A series of spaces marked by lines, and representing proportionately larger distances; as, a scale of miles, yards, feet, etc., for a map or plan.
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To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae; as, some sandstone scales by exposure.
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Without scales, or with the scales removed; as, scaled herring.
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A mathematical instrument, consisting of a slip of wood, ivory, or metal, with one or more sets of spaces graduated and numbered on its surface, for measuring or laying off distances, etc., as in drawing, plotting, and the like. See Gunter's scale.
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To climb by a ladder, or as if by a ladder; to ascend by steps or by climbing; to clamber up; as, to scale the wall of a fort.
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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.
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One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist's instrument for removing tartar from the teeth.
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Relative dimensions, without difference in proportion of parts; size or degree of the parts or components in any complex thing, compared with other like things; especially, the relative proportion of the linear dimensions of the parts of a drawing, map, model, etc., to the dimensions of the corresponding parts of the object that is represented; as, a map on a scale of an inch to a mile.
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The lever or beam of a balance; the lever of a platform scale, to which the poise for weighing is applied.
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A basis for a numeral system; as, the decimal scale; the binary scale, etc.
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Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order; as, a scale of being.
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Of or pertaining to the scalene muscles.
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