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Scaled   /skeɪld/   Listen
Scaled

adjective
1.
Having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles.  Synonyms: scaley, scaly.
2.
(used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing.


Scale

verb
(past & past part. scaled; pres. part. scaling)
1.
Measure by or as if by a scale.
2.
Pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard.
3.
Take by attacking with scaling ladders.
4.
Reach the highest point of.  Synonym: surmount.
5.
Climb up by means of a ladder.
6.
Remove the scales from.  Synonym: descale.
7.
Measure with or as if with scales.
8.
Size or measure according to a scale.



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"Scaled" Quotes from Famous Books



... never fall; for she walks forward on the eternal facts of Nature, which are the acted will of God. A giantess she is; young indeed, but humble as yet: cautious and modest beyond her years. She is accused of trying to scale Olympus, by some who fancy that they have already scaled it themselves, and will, of course, brook no rival in their ...
— The Ancien Regime • Charles Kingsley
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... fact, Norvin had one framed in his room. What a pity the Count had been stricken in the first years of his promise! What a ruthless hand it was that had destroyed him! What a giant mind it was which had kept all Sicily in terror and scaled its lips! ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
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... What business has a fellow like you with Vesuvius—a fellow that has scaled Cotopaxi, and all that sort ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille
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... mountain stream, having numerous tributaries heading in the Black Hills. The water was none too warm, and when we came out the air chilled us; but we scaled the bluff and raced back after more cattle. Forrest was in the river on our return, but I ordered his wrangler to drive all the horses under saddle down to the landing, in order that the men could have mounts for returning. This expedited ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
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... discovered a bottle of fourth-proof, but uncovered a pile of counterfeit bank notes, there concealed. Reacting like a man of genius, my conduct was both forcible and striking; I knocked three of the brethren down, jumped out of the back window, scaled a fence, rushed through an alley, gained the street and was that afternoon on a ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn
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