A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.
1 The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf .
2 A scurf of ash and broken slates surrounds its roofless walls.
3 For removing scurf , glycerine, diluted with a little rose-water, will be found of service.
4 A scurf of books and china ornaments awaited him.
5 That scurf on the frond of ore-weed is F. lineata (Pl.
6 It was no more than the scurf of his skin, which was constantly shuffled off.
7 At his death a stone was taken from the bladder, covered with scurf and hair.
8 Dead flakes sloughed to the floor, and a snow of scurf whitened the boy's lap.
9 All covered with scurf and dust about the shoulders!
10 Save for a couple of inches of scurf and mould and old cobwebs it was empty.
11 After a few days, a scurf or branny scales will begin to form on the skin.
12 His clothes were so covered in scurf they looked like they'd been dusted with icing sugar.
13 Therefore, a heavy scurf rim frequently indicates what is ordinarily called "a scrofulous condition."
14 The fine-tooth comb will cause a greater accumulation of scurf , and will scratch and injure the scalp.
15 Many who went there covered with scurf returned plump and fair, and scarce like the same people.
16 There floated down from some rotten rope up aloft a flake of scurf , that settled in the pipkin.
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