How To Use Scurf In A Sentence

  • = -- On trunks of old trees thick, shallow-channeled, broad-ridged; on stems of young trees and upon branches smooth, greenish; season's shoots at first rusty-scurfy or puberulent, in late autumn becoming smooth and light russet brown. Handbook of the Trees of New England
  • Wearing hats for too long makes hair oily and produces scurf while the air conditioning makes the hair lose moisture.
  • Be helpful for nourish hair and eliminate scurf, relax tired.
  • A woolly kind of scurf, scraped off the leaf stalks, is used for calking boats, and the stem furnishes a small quantity of wood. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
  • Diddy Shovel's skin was like asphalt, fissured and cracked, thickened by a lifetime of weather, the scurf of age. THE SHIPPING NEWS
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  • The "nit" -- the egg of the louse -- might be distinguished from scurf Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
  • In the course of a week of this treatment the scurf ought to be quite cured. How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade
  • In the iris of the eye the atrophied condition of the skin is indicated by a heavy, dark rim, the so-called scurf rim. Nature Cure
  • He spends most of that time at the creek, ‘washing off the plantation scurf.’
  • After a few days, a scurf or branny scales will begin to form on the skin. 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
  • Shavenness, featurelessness, emptiness, clamminess scurfiness, formed the outward expression of a town to which people were reasonably glad to come from Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • It seldom runs on to canker; but the hair comes off round the edges of the ear, accompanied by much heat and scurfiness of the skin. The Dog
  • I should strongly recommend the doctor being called in when there is scurf, but sometimes a home remedy like “golden ointment,” which is a compound of mercury, will cure the condition rapidly. How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade
  • I was still wondering what famished them, since the reason for their leanness, and their skin's sad scurf, was not obvious yet.
  • The = pileus = is thin, convex or later expanded, of a watery appearance, nearly smooth or scurfy or slightly squamulose. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • Here I cannot afford to be remembering what I said or did, my scurf cast off, but what I am and aspire to become.
  • Stamens six, hypogenous! anthers introrse! capsule cartilaginous, loculicidally three-valved, scurfy-leaved epiphytic! "Some Say" Neighbours in Cyrus
  • The child stared into the dry dish where his water once overflowed, and his stone flesh turned scurfy and cracked with dried algae like the sear and yellow skin of an old man.
  • If your horse has a lot of winter scurf, you may want to give him a bath prior to clipping (its amazing how much easier the clipper blades go through clean hair).
  • `For applying salt or vitriol to remove the scales, or scurf, for making clean of the teeth. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Scurfiness, or excessive scurfiness, is the result of morbid action, and may be treated by the frequent use of the fleshbrush or hairbrush, ablution with soap and water, and the use of mild stimulating, astringent, or detergent lotions. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • Dust mites don't directly bite people, but eat the scurf of human beings, who may produce an average of one gram a day.
  • This shampoo helps to get rid of scurf.
  • The hair brush should not be too stiff, as this increases the tendency towards scurfiness of the head. A Practical Physiology
  • Clueless old men in the government, scratching their scurfy scalps, going, ‘Huh-yup, dat's what dem foreigner's'll like’.
  • 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. How I Take Care Of My Hair | Edwardian Promenade
  • The water may be either tepid or cold, according to the feelings or habit of the person; and if the head or hair be very scurfy or dirty, or hard water be used, a few grains of soda (not potash or pearlash) may be advantageously added to the water. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • Diddy Shovel's skin was like asphalt, fissured and cracked, thickened by a lifetime of weather, the scurf of age. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • `For applying salt or vitriol to remove the scales, or scurf, for making clean of the teeth. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
  • Persons must indeed be of very uncleanly habits, whose heads absolutely require the aid of this comb, as the brush alone sufficiently possesses the power of effectually cleaning the hair from scurf, dandriff, and dust, if constantly used. The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies
  • Match weed or broomweed, scurf-pea, sunflowers, goldenrods, and ragweed occur from Oklahoma into Canada. Great Plains Steppe Province (Bailey)
  • Take-all attacks the roots of the plant, causing a black scurfy appearance on roots and lower stems.
  • He got up onto his hands and knees and felt carefully round inside the byre, but there was nothing even faintly edible—only a scurf of moldy hay. Songs of Love & Death
  • It's a concept with which both Meg and Howard would be well at home and would send a clear message to the scurfy down-market low-income brigade and their fellow-travellers.
  • Shavenness, featurelessness, emptiness, clamminess scurfiness, formed the outward expression of a town to which people were reasonably glad to come from London in summer-time, for there was nothing in Crikswich to distract the naked pursuit of health. Complete Short Works of George Meredith
  • I can only think that fungus is involved somewhere along the line, perhaps an accumulation of dead cells / scurf / mould in the area under the dewlap so often overlooked in the shower.
  • = Scurf = — “furfur or furfura” — is a formation depending on the natural and healthy exfoliation of the skin on every part of the body on which hair or down grows, but most extensive and observable on the scalp, on account of the abundance and darker color of the hair there. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
  • The black rim seen more or less distinctly in the outer rim of the iris in the eyes of the majority of people has been called the scurf rim, because it was found that this dark rim appears in the iris after the suppression of scurfy and other forms of skin eruptions and after the external or internal use of lotions, ointments and medicines containing mercury, zinc, iodine, arsenic or other poisons which suppress or destroy the life and activity of the skin. Nature Cure

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