Scurfy

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. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Cocoa-nuts, sweet potatoes, an occasional sago cake, and the refuse nut after the oil has been extracted by boiling, form the chief sustenance of these people; and the effect of this poor and unwholesome diet is seen in the frequency of eruptions and scurfy skin diseases, and the numerous sores that disfigure the faces of the children. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Nearly half of them were afflicted with the scurfy skin-disease. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The scurfy skin disease so common among savages has a close connexion with the poorness and irregularity of their living. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (1990)

The sight also made Zalazar think imaginatively of the stump of some giant's neck or limb; it was rimmed with soil and growth resembling scurfy skin, it was boned and veined with white rocks and red toward the middle, and it bubbled here and there with pure new springs, the blood of Earth. ❋ Niven, Larry (1981)

There were random cases of foul foot, inverted eyelid and scurfy ear, and one of the bulls was so afflicted with orchitis that he walked with a straddling gait, lest his geranium red testicles sound a painful gong against his thighs. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1976)

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. ❋ Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 (1952)

Of the second family (_Elæagnaceæ_), the commonest example is _Shepherdia_, a low shrub having the leaves covered with curious, scurfy hairs that give them a silvery appearance. ❋ Douglas Houghton Campbell (N/A)

The hair falls off; a scurfy appearance of the skin is perceptible; and the animal is poor in condition and in milk. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

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. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Burning heat, attended with constant thirst, then began to torment me from morning till night; my skin became scurfy; the skin of my feet and hands peeled off; my tongue was always furred; a feeling of contraction in the bowels was continual; my eyes were strained and discolored, and I had unceasing headache. ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)

The ghastly white and red blotches, the livid scars of the leper, the head with patches of scurfy hair ready to fall at a touch, startled even Iémon the priest. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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. ❋ Jacob Joshua Levison (N/A)

In the early, dry, scurfy stage of grease, the heels may be well cleaned with soft soap and water, and afterwards thoroughly dried, and then treated with a dilution of Goulard's extract -- one part to eight parts of water, or one part with six parts of lard oil. ❋ Various (N/A)

Various amounts of an amber, or yellow scurfy, substance was also observed on the new flowers. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Fronds oblong, two to seven inches long, deeply pinnátifid, gray and scurfy underneath with peltate scales having a dark center. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)

+Stem+ 1 to 2½ inches long, 2 to 5 lines thick, stout, somewhat ribbed, or scurfy, with minute dots. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)

“But how —” A gully, or rather a crease, showed among the rocks at this place; it was scurfy with cactuses. ❋ Forster, E. M. (1924)

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! ❋ Martin Andersen Nex�� (1911)