Presently the other began to move towards him, waving a large misshapen hand which gleamed with a kind of scurfy whiteness; and he cried out unintelligible words, which seemed half angry, half piteous. From Wordnik.com. [Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset] Reference
+Stem+ 1 to 2½ inches long, 2 to 5 lines thick, stout, somewhat ribbed, or scurfy, with minute dots. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners] Reference
The hair falls off; a scurfy appearance of the skin is perceptible; and the animal is poor in condition and in milk. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Fronds oblong, two to seven inches long, deeply pinnátifid, gray and scurfy underneath with peltate scales having a dark center. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
San José scale, oyster-shell, and scurfy scales, the cottony maple scale, the maple phenacoccus on the sugar maples, and the various aphides on beech, Norway maple, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The compound leaves are usually about 20-45 cm long and covered with rusty hairs giving a scurfy effect particularly along the upper surface but this eventually falls off. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 42] Reference
His clothes had been made for him by a tailor of flamboyant temperament some time in the early thirties; but they were now too loose and there were little scurfy patches on his forehead where the hairline ended. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
The salt had dried in scurfy ridges on hair and face. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference
Nearly half of them were afflicted with the scurfy skin-disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference
"Is it anything like the scurfy-bark louse?" inquired the colonel. From Wordnik.com. [Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird] Reference
= -- Buds small, rounded or conical, brownish, scales minutely pubescent or scurfy. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
If you collect this method, scurfy nutrient you organic raised bed vegetable garden something black powered. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution]
“But how —” A gully, or rather a crease, showed among the rocks at this place; it was scurfy with cactuses. From Wordnik.com. [A Passage To India]
"Stamens six, hypogenous! anthers introrse! capsule cartilaginous, loculicidally three-valved, scurfy-leaved epiphytic!". From Wordnik.com. ["Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus] Reference
The = pileus = is thin, convex or later expanded, of a watery appearance, nearly smooth or scurfy or slightly squamulose. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
= -- Fruiting catkins at length 3-6 inches long; capsule conical, acute, roughish-scurfy, hairy at tip: seeds numerous, hairy. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
The brushing causes a healthy circulation of the scalp; but combing the hair makes the head scurfy, and pulls out the hair by the roots. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
This species of canker commences with a scurfy eruption and thickening of the edges of the ear, apparently attended by considerable itching or pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
One nevo capitano lawyer mountain view to stimulate your balcony success is to sprinkler indoor recarpet amendments, and one of those that you should breathe is slope scurfy rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Wii-volution]
The flanks become tucked up, the fat disappears, the bones and muscles stand out prominently, the skin becomes tense and hidebound, and the hair erect, scurfy, and deficient in luster. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
= -- Leaf-buds long, narrow, covered with scurfy, brown, leaf-like scales; flower-buds much longer, swollen at the base, with two leaf-like scales extended into a long, spire-like point. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
= -- Trunk and larger branches dark purplish or reddish brown, separating in old trees into small, firm sections; branchlets grayish-brown; season's shoots reddish-brown, dotted, more or less scurfy. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
This last mentioned complaint appears, at the beginning, in scurfy spots upon different parts of the body, which finally settle upon the hands or feet, where the skin becomes withered, and cracks in many places. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa] Reference
She was rummaging about down there, scurfy and repulsive to look at, chewing an unappetizing slice of bread-and-butter, and starting at every sound that came from above, so anxious was she about her filthy money!. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03] Reference
I also learn, that three, or four of the berries, purge both by vomit, and siege, and the powder made of the berry, being bak’d, kills nits, and cures scurfy heads. From Wordnik.com. [Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees] Reference
Sameness locks no scurfy pond. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The skin becomes harsh, dry, and scurfy. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
And scurfy-white, mix'd motley; his gross bulk. From Wordnik.com. [Poems, 1799] Reference
It's dull and scurfy and he's very itchy. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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