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scurf

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scurf [skərf]
(medicine)
A branlike desquamation of the epidermis, especially from the scalp; dandruff.


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I spent the most part of all these three days in the creek, washing off the plantation scurf, and preparing myself for my departure.
It was no more than the scurf of his skin, which was constantly shuffled off.
As his pointed fingers touched it, it dropped the white scurf of crinkled lids over black, glasslike eyes and began to sway backwards and forwards.
 
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