Covered or abounding with scales. / Composed of scales lying over each other. / Resembling scales, laminae, or layers. / (dated, vulgar or South Africa) low, mean.

(South Africa) The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. / (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.

Close investigation. / (computing) An instance of scanning. / (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

(music) A minor hexatonic scale originating in the American musical genre blues, consisting of tonic, minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, fifth, and minor seventh, in which notes, particularly the minor third, fourth, diminished fifth, and minor seventh may be bent. It can also be called the minor blues scale when distinguishing it from its only other functional mode the major blues scale.

In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.

(transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

A temporary modular system of tubes (or formerly wood) forming a framework used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.

present participle of scaffold

(now dialectal) The top of the head; the skull. / The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.