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To divest of the ross, or rough, scaly surface; as, to ross bark.
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A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm.
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Scale-winged.
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Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged.
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Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.
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Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
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The rough, scaly matter on the surface of the bark of trees.
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A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.
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A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
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Composed of scales lying over each other; as, a scaly bulb; covered with scales; as, a scaly stem.
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A scaly granular variety of anhydrite of a grayish white color, used for ornamental purposes.
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A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin.
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A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.
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Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.
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Mean; low; as, a scaly fellow.
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A small spot, mark, scar, or a minute hole; -- applied especially to a spot on the outer surface of a Graafian follicle, and to spots of intercellular substance in scaly epithelium, or to minute holes in such spots.
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Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.
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The state of being scaly; roughness.
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Covered or abounding with scales; as, a scaly fish.
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