William Scales is a Centralia business man and a virulent sycophant.

In the observations that follow, he suggests, as not improbable, a very different view, founded on the supposed analogy with Araucaria, whose structure was then misunderstood; namely, that the inner scale of the female amentum is a bilocular ovarium, of which the outer scale is the style.

There was in Paris a public scale called poids du roi; but this scale, though a most important means of revenue, was a great hindrance to retail trade.

The scales are modified stipules, instead of leaf-stalks, as in Horsechestnut.

The scale of the orchards was in some degree a measure of the domesticity prevailing.

The scale and the trend of slave prices are essential features of the régime which most economists have ignored and for which the rest have had too little data.

The scales of the back are oval, smoothish; those of the lower part of the body and upper part of the legs acutely mid-ribbed, and of the sides and joints of the limbs minute.

The enclosed shoot develops into a tuber which stands more or less vertical, and the scales become pretty little leaves.

the scales falling from one's eyes; an eye like Mars to threaten or command [Hamlet]; her eyes are homes of silent prayer

This is termed the absolute zero, and so that we start reckoning from that point it does not matter whether the scale adopted is the Centigrade or that of Fahrenheit.

The scale of the crop was commonly five acres of rice to each full hand, together with about half as much in provision crops for home consumption.

In the observations that follow, he suggests, as not improbable, a very different view, founded on the supposed analogy with Araucaria, whose structure was then misunderstood; namely, that the inner scale of the female amentum is a bilocular ovarium, of which the outer scale is the style.

William Scales was vice president and Hubbard was treasurer.

Copper steam pipes seem to have some galvanic action on valve faces, and malleable iron pipes have sometimes been substituted; but they are speedily worn out by oxidation, and the scales of rust which are carried on by the steam scratch the valves and cylinders, so that the use of copper pipes is the least evil.