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n. - Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled; Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells;

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  • Otherways, stew them in butter and cream, and serve them in scollop shells.
  • Work 4 rounds more, the same for each scollop, or 32 for the collar, then work 18 of the following pattern for the leaf: --
  • I demanded where their rappee was? the good woman pointed to the place; and I took up a scollop-shell of it, refusing to let her weight it, and filled my box.
  • Take claret-wine vinegar, nutmeg, salt, and butter, stew them down some what dry, and dish them in a scollop-shell, run them over with butter and slic't lemon.
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