One of the many small hard dermal or epidermal structures that characteristically form the external covering of fishes and reptiles and certain mammals, such as pangolins, A dry thin flake of epidermis shed from the skin, A hard mineral coating that forms on the inside surface of boilers, kettles, and other containers in which water is repeatedly heated, intransitive verb_ To clear or strip of scale or scales, To throw (a thin flat object) so that it soars through the air or skips along the surface of water, To become encrusted