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Squameary, adj. [ME and e.m.E. squame (Chaucer), F. squame, L. squāma a scale.] Scaly. —1652 Tayler Hist. Fam. Urquhart 102.
Various multitudes of squameary flocks should be educed out of the bowels of the ocean
