In addition to keeping the hair perfectly clean, this brushing prevents the possibility of any scurf or dandruff – and scurf is death to the hair. From Wordnik.com. [How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
In the iris of the eye the atrophied condition of the skin is indicated by a heavy, dark rim, the so-called scurf rim. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
A woolly kind of scurf, scraped off the leaf stalks, is used for calking boats, and the stem furnishes a small quantity of wood. From Wordnik.com. [Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture] Reference
The luce scraped off your face is an example of scurf. From Wordnik.com. [Some Obscure Words To Add To Your Vocabulary] Reference
= — For pimples, freckle-tanned skin, or scurf on the skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
His hands were large and the skin of them had a chalky scurf to it. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
After a few days, a scurf or branny scales will begin to form on the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
In the course of a week of this treatment the scurf ought to be quite cured. From Wordnik.com. [How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade] Reference
Like the incantations of his own witches, it "casts a thick scurf over life.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
Pastures were grazed down to scurf by sheep and goats, or abandoned to thickets. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
For removing scurf, glycerine diluted with a little rose-water will be found of service. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The young cull who'd taken Susan Delgado's cherry had likely stopped her from chop-ping her scurf ... but how?. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
This application can be used with good effect in all cases of hard, dry skin on the head, and formation of white scurf. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
A good hair wash is soap and water, and the oftener it is applied the freer the surface of the head will be from scurf. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
His age might be about thirty, and by the white scurf on his skin, and his sore eyes, he appeared to be a hard drinker of kava. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
If, however, the hair is brushed too long or too hard, the scalp is greatly stimulated, and an increased production of scurf may result. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord's altar. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Redness, scurf, and eruptions were on almost every part. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Pale with scurf of the salt, seamed and baked in the sun!. From Wordnik.com. [In Divers Tones] Reference
The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
The "nit" -- the egg of the louse -- might be distinguished from scurf. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
At his death a stone was taken from the bladder, covered with scurf and hair. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
It was no more than the scurf of his skin, which was constantly shuffled off. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
It was the sole tree of the host clad thus in scurf bearing a semblance of livid metal. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
He was very thin and his body was covered with white scurf from immoderate use of "ava.". From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century] Reference
They have but to cast away the dust and scurf that they may rise and stand on their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry] Reference
The water was allowed to stagnate along the path, and a thick, green scurf had gathered upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge] Reference
Therefore, a heavy scurf rim frequently indicates what is ordinarily called "a scrofulous condition.". From Wordnik.com. [Nature Cure] Reference
Siup, a kind of wild fig, is applied to the scurf or leprosy of the Nias people, when not inveterate. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference
The fine-tooth comb will cause a greater accumulation of scurf, and will scratch and injure the scalp. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
These are bodies and limbs of drowned oaks, -- so long drowned that the shell-scurf is inch-thick upon parts of them. From Wordnik.com. [Chita: a Memory of Last Island] Reference
Scientists were developing diagnostic tools for powdery scab, black scurf, silver scurf and dickeya species, said Dr Blok. From Wordnik.com. [FWi - All News] Reference
I spent the largest part of these three days in the creek, washing off the plantation scurf, and preparing for my new home. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
The central bald spot, covered with a grayish scurf and surrounded by a circle of broken and split hairs, is characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Cast from thee the foul scurf which now encrusts thy robust limbs, which deadens their force, and makes them heavy and powerless!. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
I spent the most part of all these three days in the creek, washing off the plantation scurf, and preparing myself for my departure. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] Reference
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