A scurf or scabby disorder (as of the scalp)

(1936-) US jurist and associate justice of the US Supreme Court 1986– . He concurred with the majority in Texas v Johnson 1989, that ruled constitutional the burning of the US flag in protest. He dissented in Edwards v Aguillard 1987 when the Court ruled that states may not mandate the teaching of the theory of creationism to counteract the teaching of the theory of evolution.
Born in Trenton, New Jersey, US, Scalia graduated from Georgetown University and the Harvard University Law School. From 1971 he worked as a lawyer in the executive branch of the federal government, ultimately becoming assistant attorney general 1974, where he advised the Gerald Ford White House in the Watergate scandal. President Reagan appointed Scalia to the Supreme Court 1986.
He later became professor of law at the University of Chicago, where he was known for his support of economic deregulation and judicial restraint.

Of or related to a musical scale.

Joseph Justus 1540-1609 French scholar

Julius Caesar 1484-1558 father of preceding Italian physician

Quality of being flaky, quality of being covered in scales

1. Act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale.
2. Ascent by or as if by a ladder.
3. The act of arranging in a graduated series; SYN. grading.

A ladder used to scale the walls in an attack.