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Definition of Fish scale
1. Noun. Scale of the kind that covers the bodies of fish.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fish Scale
Literary usage of Fish scale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"... in his paper published in 1855; it shows a section of a fish- scale from the
... A, Section of a fish-scale from the ..."
2. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an by William Churchill (1911)
"Tonga: uno, fish scale, tortoise shell. Uvea: uno, fish scale. ... fish scale.
Malay: unus, to pull out. Hebrew: halas, to pull out, to pull off. ..."
3. The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary by Edward Tregear (1891)
"Cf. una, the scale of a fish ; a plate of tortoise- shell ; »/M. scaly ; to be
furnished with scales ; miai'ii, a fish-scale ; a speck in the eye. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States Named in by J. Peter Lesley (1889)
"Specimens in the cabinet (OO. p. 236), spec. 804-103 (fish scale) in Fellows and
... 889-4 (fish scale) in Sherwood's collections at Roulette, Potter Co., ..."
5. Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwallby Royal Institution of Cornwall by Royal Institution of Cornwall (1881)
"Fish-scale " crystals, on Quartz. 1698 Do. Minute botryoidal groups on Pyrites.
1699 Do. ... Large "fish-scale" crystals, with Chalcopyrite and Dolomite. ..."
6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1900 A fish-scale is the nickel with which a [Yale] student pays his car-fare.—'
Dialect Notes,' ii. 16. Fish Story. An improbable tale ; a cock-and-bull ..."
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