A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.
Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
The milder sort, or impetigo, as I apprehend it to be, is very common among the inhabitants of Nias, great numbers of whom are covered with a white scurf or scales that renders them loathsome to the sight.
Siup, a kind of wild fig, is applied to the scurf or leprosy of the Nias people, when not inveterate.
Want of taste is very common in fevers, owing frequently to the dryness or scurf of the tongue, or external organ of that sense, rather than to any injury of the nerves of taste.
The dryness and scurf on the tongue and nostrils is owing to the increased heat of the air expired from the lungs, and consequent greater evaporation of the aqueous part of the mucus.
Pliny saith, that eating of the leaves hath been found by experience to cure the leprosy, applying some of them to the face, and to help the scurf or dandriff of the head used with vinegar.
The mischief is not so much from scurf being gradually deposited all over the interior of the boiler to a dangerous thickness as from the chips off the sides falling in heaps on the bottom.
Accumulations of scurf in the feed pipes at the point of entrance into the boiler have also caused explosion by stopping the supply of water.
The cause of the explosion appeared to be from the failure of a seam over the fire place in a plate deteriorated by age, and overheated through a deposit of scurf and mud.
The cause of the explosion was the deterioration of the seams over the fire, in consequence of the deposit of scurf which could not be properly cleared off owing to the internal tubes.
This line of injury is exposed to constant attack from corrosion, because the scurf is always thrown off from it.
Some of the specimens of scurf exhibited to the Meeting show that their thickness is made up of small chips, carelessly left after cleaning or fallen from the sides of the boiler, as seen in Fig.
Scurf cannot be considered so great an evil as corrosion, since it can be removed, and if this is done in time, the boiler is restored to its original condition.
This frequent repair over the fireplace had been made necessary by very hard firing and deposits of scurf from muddy water, preventing the proper contact of the water with the plates.
For cleaning the hair and removing scurf or dandruff wash the head with a solution of a small packet of borax in a pint of hot water, after which the head should be rinsed with cold water, and carefully dried.
Persons who perspire freely, or who accumulate scurf rapidly, require it also.
It also saved their skins from the scurf and chapping which the sea-water occasioned.
But methinks that is a scurf that will fall off fast enough,--that the natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day, the winter to the summer, thought to experience.
Therefore, a heavy scurf rim frequently indicates what is ordinarily called "a scrofulous condition.
In the iris of the eye the atrophied condition of the skin is indicated by a heavy, dark rim, the so-called scurf rim.
Scurf on the face is usually secondary to that on the head.
Condamine and Drouilly) in the subcutaneous connective tissue, causing effusions of blood under the scurf skin and incrustations of dried blood on the surface.
Like all Sarcoptes, it burrows little galleries in and beneath the scurf skin, where it hides and lays its eggs and where its young are hatched.
The central bald spot, covered with a grayish scurf and surrounded by a circle of broken and split hairs, is characteristic.
The mollusc gleams like a gem amid The scurf and the clustered green sea-grapes, Whose trellis is but the rock's bare side, Whose husbandman but the tide that drapes.
Remove any scurf or adhering dirt with a coarse flannel or a cloth.
Before cooking the scurfshould be rubbed from the caps, which alone should be eaten, as the stem is tough.
Defn: Falling of scurffrom the head; desquamation.
Defn: A scurf or scabby disease, especially of the scalp.
Scurf "is a natural and healthy formation, and though it may be kept from accumulating, it cannot be prevented.
Occasionally, as a morbid action, an unusual quantity of scurf is produced, in which case medical means may be adopted to bring the scalp into a more healthful state.
To remove the scurf in porrigo furfurans, applied twice a day diluted with warm water.
Diluted with an equal bulk of water, it forms an excellent cosmetic wash to remove scurf from the hair.
The larvæ may be reared on the sweepings of an ordinary room or the dirty scurf which collects at the bottom of old birds’ nests.
When they search one another’s fur in a fashion that must be familiar to most persons, they are clearing their coats of particles of scurf or of similar scraps of dirt and not of fleas.
The scurf which covers and grows with them is their bark, which the animals rub off when they are arrived at their full growth; until this is completed the ends remain soft, and likewise divide themselves into a number of branches.
The tree-scurf descended on them, and the birds made a piteous clamour.
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