·- A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.
·noun A scale insect. (·see below.). II. Scale ·noun The sign or constellation Libra. III. Scale ·...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An old word for commercial emporium, derived from scala. Also, the graduated divisions by which the ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- The chain ordinarily used in measuring land. ·see <<Chain>>, ·noun, 4, and Gunter's scale. ...
·- A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numb...
·- A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, ·etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of t...
Called also the line of numbers, and the line of lines, is placed upon scales and sectors, and named...
A kind of stereographic projection on the plane of the equinoctial; the eye is supposed in one of th...
Masts fitted for getting up and down with facility abaft the mast; generally used for kites, as roya...
·add. ·- A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is ind...
·add. ·- A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to ·sp.gr. 1.00, and the 30°-point t...
·adj Having the wings covered with small scalelike structures, as the Lepidoptera; scaly-winged. ...
, or vernier That fixed to the oblong opening near the lower end of the index-bar of a sextant or ...
A simple graduation, adopted by Sir Philip Broke in the Shannon, for the quick elevation or depressi...
Fitted to the breech of a gun for admeasuring its elevation; it is a sliding pillar marked with degr...
·add. ·- A very destructive scale insect (Aspidiotus perniciosus) that infests the apple, pear, and ...