"squame" meaning in Middle English

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        "Metal that flakes; a flake of such metal."
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          "text": "not squames to wasche them, and wype them, nor auoyde them, not angry nor hasty, or un pacient thof one haue the vomet, another the fluxe, another the frensy, which nowe syngethe, now wel apayde, ffor ther be some sekenesses vexynge the seke so gretly and prouokynge them to ire, that the mater drawen up to the brayne alyenthe the mendes.",
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        "(rare) Any scale or plate."
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