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scales back
vb. (en-third-person singularscale back)
Usage examples of "scales back".
Flayze's lethal fireball exploded around his enemy, searing the scales back from its face, boiling the glaring eyeballs in their sockets.
The force of the initial blow however, had dazed him, and he lay sprawled on his back, startled to see the watch-wher, its scales back launched-straight at him.
In fact, stage one of our revised terraforming plan is to tip the scales back toward the collapse-into-desert, coastal-flooding scenario--it is a less drastic catastrophe than the ice age we otherwise face.