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▪ I. scaled, ppl. a.1|skeɪld|
[f. scale n.2 + -ed2.]
1. Having or furnished with scales, as a fish or a serpent; scaly. Now rare exc. as second element of comb., as silver-scaled, and Her.
a1400–50Alexander 3865 Scalid neddirs. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 614 Formyd lyke a dragon, scalyd harde as glas. 1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie i. 235 The creatures chelled, named Conchilia, and also of those that are scaled (called insecta). 1589Eldred in Hakluyt's Voy. 232 Euphrates..hath diuers sorts of fish in it, but all are scaled. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. v. 95 A Cesterne for scal'd Snakes. 1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 155 The scal'd Crocodile, out-weep Thee can. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 455/1 An Indian scaled Hedghog. 1868Cussans Handbk. Her. vi. 91 Fish are described as being Scaled and Finned of whatever Tincture they may happen to be.
2. a. Of armour. Cf. scale-armour; scaly a. 5.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. vii. 160 A brestplate emboussed, of skaled woorke. 1657G. Thornley Daphnis & Chloe (1893) 20 Their Scaled and nailed Corslets. 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. II. 782 Scaled Armour also occurs. 1834Penny Cycl. II. 368/2 Whether this was the scaled-armour,..or that made of flat-rings..is not quite clear.
b. = imbricated 2, 3.
1776J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 392 Imbricata, scaled. 1872Coues Key N. Amer. Birds 238 Callipepla [squamata]... Scaled Partridge. Blue Quail. 1884Ibid. (ed. 2) 570 Scardafella inca... Inca Dove. Scaled Dove. 1884Fortn. Rev. Apr. 533 The tear-bottle of scaled and iridescent glass. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 97 The..date-palms, with their scaled trunks.
c. Covered with tiles in imitation of scales.
1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. xliii. 80 The church boasts the loftiest scaled spire in Sweden. 1896W. Morris in Mackail Life I. 231 The earlier house and its little gables and grey scaled roofs.
▪ II. scaled, ppl. a.2|skeɪld|
[f. scale v.2 + -ed1.]
From which scales have fallen or have been removed.
1599H. C. in Greenham's Wks. (1601) Epigr. Rdr., From whose hie top thy scaled eyes may see, A glorious light that shall enlighten thee. 1601Holland Pliny xxvi. xiv. II. 265 The spills of broken and skaled bones. 1728Rutty Tin-Plates in Phil. Trans. XXXV. 636 To prevent this,..they might first make an Essay with small Pieces of the scaled Plates. 1840Browning Sordello i. 503 A touch divine—And the scaled eyeball owns the mystic rod. 1873J. & C. S. Tomes Dental Surg. (ed. 2) 560 In order to secure the smoothness of the scaled surface, they should be polished with pumice-powder on a piece of wood.
▪ III. scaled, ppl. a.3|skeɪld|
[f. scale n.3 + -ed2.]
Provided or furnished with a graduated scale.
1900Daily News 24 Aug. 5/1 Equipping the marksmen of every battalion with detachable scaled sights.
▪ IV. scaled, ppl. a.4
[f. scale v.3 + -ed1.]
1. That has been taken by escalade.
1614R. Brathwait Threnode in Poets Willow 75 See how the Iuy twines Vpon the ruines of a skaled wall.
2. a. That has been measured by a scale or varied in a determined proportion.
1885W. Penman Land Surveying ix. 127 The scaled area is less than the actual one, indicating shrinkage of the paper. 1938Rev. Sci. Instruments IX. 221/1 The fluctuational analysis of the scaled counts occurring at an average rate of ten per minute indicated a scaling factor of 22 to 1. 1960Rogers & Connolly Analog Computation in Engin. Design x. 261 The following scaled voltage equivalents are suitable for representing the variables of the problem; 2 x–.. , 20 x. , 200x, 10h, 10t. 1976Attewell & Farmer Princ. Engin. Geol. vii. 525 (caption) Scaled distance attenuation relationships for blasting in a rock.
b. scaled-up: that has been increased proportionately in amount or size in all its parts. Similarly scaled-down.
1944P. H. Wilkinson Aircraft Engines of World 1944 38 The 12-cylinder 1,300 h.p. Jumo 211-J is a scaled-up version of the Jumo 210. 1947A. E. Slater in A. C. Douglas Gliding & Advanced Soaring i. 12 The earliest recorded attempts to fly, as well as the legendary ones, usually began with an attempt to reproduce a scaled-up bird's wing, often to the extent of putting feathers on it, in the belief that such a structure was inherently able to keep itself up, once it got well aloft. 1953Trans. Soc. Instrument Technol. V. 126/2 The pilot unit is not usually constructed unless the manufacturer is satisfied that he will eventually proceed to the erection of a full-scale plant. It is a scaled-down version of such a plant. 1963Bird & Hutton-Stott Veteran Motor Car 49 B.S.A. cars..were virtually scaled-down Daimlers. 1973Lebende Sprachen XVIII. 7/2 Go-ahead for a scaled-up version of the engine giving a 30 percent increase in original thrust. 1977Time 19 Sept. 43/1 Anyone with a driver's license and a few dollars can safely savor some of the adrenaline-pumping, gut⁓clutching fever of Grand Prix racing on a minitrack, in a scaled-down Formula I speedster. |