Definitions
Weighing devices, musical note series, or outer coverings.
Word origin
From Old Norse skáli (“shed, hut”). Doublet of Scholes.
Used in a sentence
“The butcher put the sausages on the scales.”
“The scales should be uneven, the northern exalted, the southern depressed.”
“The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab, the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales; The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat, The Man that carries the Water-pot, And Fish with glittering scales.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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