Scales

/ skeɪlz /

noun

1. the Scales
   the constellation Libra, the seventh sign of the zodiac

Example Sentences

Once the bird was fully cleaned out, it was time to put it on the scales.

From The Daily Beast

I'm still primarily looking into certain sounds, certain scales.

From The Daily Beast

And Lady L, tipping the scales at 225 tons, is no Mary-Kate Olsen.

From The Daily Beast

After he had showered be stepped on the scales, and he had lost six and a half pounds.

From The Daily Beast

The aftershocks tipped the scales decidedly in the favor of the government, the holiday, and the rum.

From The Daily Beast

After an hour, the cone is so closely shut, that the flowers are held as fast in its scales as if they had always grown there.

From Project Gutenberg

You see, up to that time he had thought himself rather a knowing fellow; but Mr Dean managed to remove the scales from his eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

Fish scales cover the walls, and everywhere there is a smell as if one were in the belly of a whale.

From Project Gutenberg

The woman reminds one of a red lizard—a salamander—her “svelte” body seemingly boneless in its gown of clinging scales.

From Project Gutenberg

A good many things, just then, swung in the scales of chance, and what the dog might do was only one of them.

From Project Gutenberg