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Meanings of scurf in English

Portuguese
exfoliação

A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.

        exfoliação
        Usage of scurf in English
        1
        The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf.
        Crome Yellow
        2
        A scurf of ash and broken slates surrounds its roofless walls.
        The Irish Times
        3
        For removing scurf, glycerine, diluted with a little rose-water, will be found of service.
        Our Deportment / Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most R...
        4
        A scurf of books and china ornaments awaited him.
        Howards End
        5
        That scurf on the frond of ore-weed is F. lineata (Pl.
        Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
        6
        It was no more than the scurf of his skin, which was constantly shuffled off.
        Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
        7
        At his death a stone was taken from the bladder, covered with scurf and hair.
        Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
        8
        Dead flakes sloughed to the floor, and a snow of scurf whitened the boy's lap.
        The new yorker
        9
        All covered with scurf and dust about the shoulders!
        The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
        10
        Save for a couple of inches of scurf and mould and old cobwebs it was empty.
        Widdershins
        11
        After a few days, a scurf or branny scales will begin to form on the skin.
        Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
        12
        His clothes were so covered in scurf they looked like they'd been dusted with icing sugar.
        Wastelands
        13
        Therefore, a heavy scurf rim frequently indicates what is ordinarily called "a scrofulous condition."
        Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
        14
        The fine-tooth comb will cause a greater accumulation of scurf, and will scratch and injure the scalp.
        Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
        15
        Many who went there covered with scurf returned plump and fair, and scarce like the same people.
        A Voyage to the South Sea / Undertaken by command of His Majesty...
        16
        There floated down from some rotten rope up aloft a flake of scurf, that settled in the pipkin.
        Widdershins
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        Translations for scurf
        Portuguese
        exfoliação
        Scurf through the time