scales

Definitions

Examples

• Once the bird was fully cleaned out, it was time to put it on the scales.

• I'm still primarily looking into certain sounds, certain scales.

• And Lady L, tipping the scales at 225 tons, is no Mary-Kate Olsen.

• After he had showered be stepped on the scales, and he had lost six and a half pounds.

• The aftershocks tipped the scales decidedly in the favor of the government, the holiday, and the rum.

• After an hour, the cone is so closely shut, that the flowers are held as fast in its scales as if they had always grown there.

• You see, up to that time he had thought himself rather a knowing fellow; but Mr Dean managed to remove the scales from his eyes.

• Fish scales cover the walls, and everywhere there is a smell as if one were in the belly of a whale.

• The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.

• A good many things, just then, swung in the scales of chance, and what the dog might do was only one of them.