| scall | A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp. "It is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head." (Lev. Xiii. 30) Origin: Icel. Skalli a bald head. Cf. Scald. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| scalled | Scabby; scurfy; scall. "With scalled brows black." Scalled head. <medicine> See Scald head, under Scald. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scallion | 1. <botany> A kind of small onion (Allium Ascalonicum), native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Origin: OF. Escalone, escaloingne, L. Caepa Ascalonius of Ascalon, fr. Ascalo Ascalon, a town in Palestine. Cf. Shallot. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scallop | 1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Synonym: fan shell. See Pecten. The common edible scallop of the Eastern United States is Pecten irradians; the large sea scallop, also used as food, is P. Clontonius, or tenuicostastus. 2. One of series of segments of circles joined at their extremities, forming a border like the edge or surface of a scallop shell. 3. One of the shells of a scallop; also, a dish resembling a scallop shell. Origin: OF. Escalope a shell, probably of German or Dutch origin, and akin to E. Scale of a fish; cf. D. Schelp shell. See Scale of a fish, and cf. Escalop Alternative forms: scollop. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalloper | One who fishes for scallops. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| scalloping | A series of indentations or erosions on a normally smooth margin of a structure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| milk scall | Seborrhoea of the scalp in an infant. Synonym: milk crust, milk scall. (05 Mar 2000) |
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