I tried to find a biblical justification for it, but no matter how hard I looked, I always ended up at Leviticus 11:10 which calls scaleless fish, "an abomination.". From Wordnik.com. [Ed stokes the fires of my lost love] Reference
First-of-Surgery regarded the scaleless warrior Human. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Small, scaleless fishes, short jaws, armed with sharp teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Mark C. Miller: Holy Mackerel! Amazing Fish Facts] Reference
The creature's clothes were badly torn, revealing blackened splotches on the exposed scaleless skin. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
For the most part, amphibians are scaleless and their skin is highly permeable, requiring a source of moisture in order to prevent desiccation. From Wordnik.com. [Amphibian] Reference
He deserved it all — all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
He greased the frying pan with a strip of bacon rind and then skinned the scaleless catfish and eels as if he had been doing nothing else all his life. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference
Lampreys are ancient jawless, scaleless fish that date back 280 million years, and have the highest number of chromosomes of all vertebrates (164-174). From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in the Caucasus] Reference
The kinds of meat permitted are mutton and venison, scaly, but not scaleless, fish, hares, and even the tortoise, wild boar, wild buffalo and rhinoceros. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Seen up close, the mature wels catfish is a frightening sight, with its green, scaleless skin; powerful tail; and oversized mouth big enough to stick your head into. From Wordnik.com. [Spain's Ebro River Is Big Catfish Country] Reference
Semi-humanoid was as good a description as any-smooth black skin, hairless, scaleless, short and stocky pair of legs, upright carriage, two arms ending in a hand of some sort, and a head. From Wordnik.com. [Timegod's World]
Most common volume ratios are 3 to 4 eggs for every 2 cups of flour, but I prefer Marcella Hazans ratio of 2 eggs per 1 cup of flour, a good alternate ratio if you find yourself scaleless. From Wordnik.com. [Ratio] Reference
This fish attains a length of from 5 ft. to 6 ft., and has a smooth, scaleless body of a dark color, on which large light-yellow spots appear, which give the fish a very peculiar appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference
Apparently scaleless, and without free pectoral rays. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference
They are scaleless with a thin, gelatinous skin though some species have spines. From Wordnik.com. [Warren Ellis] Reference
Other fish are scaleless (eel), sacrificing protection for more flexability and maneuverability. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He deserved it all -- all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless. From Wordnik.com. [I.9] Reference
(If you're scaleless, that's roughly 1 cup of table salt and 1.5 to 2 cups kosher salt, depending on how coarse your kosher.). From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats] Reference
It is smooth and scaleless with fleshy lips and soft meat and as it haunts muddy bottoms it was forbidden to the Ancient Egyptians. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The majority of the coast settlers will not eat them, being under the idea that, as they are all but scaleless, they are 'poisonous.'. From Wordnik.com. [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference
He deserved it all -- all labour, all devotion, all sacrifice; I would have toiled up a scaleless Alp, to pluck a flower that would please him. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
It is scaleless, and almost finless, with a dangerously barbed dorsal spine, which, if it inflicts a wound on the hand, causes days of intense suffering. From Wordnik.com. [The Call Of The South 1908] Reference
This silly impression also prevails with regard to many other scaleless fish on the Australian coast, some of which, such as the trevally, are among the best and most delicate in flavour. From Wordnik.com. [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference
It has the long, linear, scaleless body of Campodea, in the family below, but the head and its appendages are like Lepisma, the maxillary palpi being five-jointed, and the labial palpi four-jointed. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
The lesion appears to have its origin from an ordinary, usually scaleless or slightly scaly, large papule, the central portion of which has been incompletely formed or has become sunken and flattened. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
These are monstrous creatures, these catfish of Reelfoot -- scaleless, slick things, with corpsy, dead eyes and poisonous fins like javelins and long whiskers dangling from the sides of their cavernous heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference
Unlike the frisky porpoises, these big fellows convoyed us in the most dignified manner, heaving their dark, shining, scaleless bodies half out of the water as they surged along within a few feet of our boats. From Wordnik.com. [Four Months in a Sneak-Box] Reference
The scales of the squamous syphilide are usually dirty gray in color and more or less scanty; the patches are coppery in hue, and usually several or more characteristic scaleless, infiltrated papules are to be found. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Khisanth still shivered at the taste of its slimy, scaleless body filled with bitter-if not deadly" poison. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Wing]
For a male 'tis far too scaleless. From Wordnik.com. [Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes] Reference
Upon the scaleless parts they spring!. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
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