counter-scallopedadj.
/kaʊntəˈskaləpt/ Heraldry.
(See quot. 1830.)
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1830 T. Robson Brit. Herald III. Counter-scallopée, or -scalloped, covered with escallop-shells, laid like the scales of fish..each row being so placed that every escallop may overlay part of two, or appear to come from the two above it.
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adj.1830- to case up
- to cash in
- to cash in one's chips
- to cash, pass or send in one's checks
- to cast , heave, spue up, vomit one's gorge
- to cast a bone
- to cast a chance
- to cast a clod between
- to cast a damp
- to cast a dash
- to cast a discreet veil over
- to cast a fetch
- to cast a figure, horoscope, nativity
- to cast a foin at
- to cast a gamond
- to cast a girdle about
- to cast a girdle round about
- to cast a hawk
- to cast a horoscope
- to cast a laggen-gird
- to cast a laggengird
- to cast a leglen-girth
- to cast a leglengirth
- to cast a lure
- to cast a mist