Crossword-Solution: SCURF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scurf | n. | Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff. |
| Scurf | n. | Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent. |
| Scurf | n. | Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface. |
| Scurf | n. | Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SCURF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Scaly crust | 1 answer |
| Shed skin flakes | 1 answer |
| Skin exfoliation | 1 answer |
| Skin shreds | 1 answer |
| Thin flakes from the skin | 1 answer |
| flaky skin on the scalp | 1 answer |
| WHITE scales shed from scalp | 2 answers |
| Exfoliation | 2 answers |
| SCALP problem | 3 answers |
| dandruff | 8 answers |
| A COVERING THAT RESEMBLES SCALES OR BRAN THAT COVERS SOME PLANT PARTS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCURF (5)
That again, Which vapoury mist and flitting smoke exhales, Drinks moisture up and casts it forth at will, Which, ever in its own green grass arrayed, Mars not the metal with salt scurf of rust- That shall thine elms with merry vines enwreathe; That teems with olive; that shall thy tilth prove kind To cattle, and patient of the curved share.
There fell King Eowils, and King Healfden; Earls Ohter and Scurf; Governors Agmund, Othulf, and Benesing; Anlaf the Swarthy, and Governor Thunferth; Osferth the collector, and Governor Guthferth.
These are bodies and limbs of drowned oaks,--so long drowned that the shell-scurf is inch-thick upon parts of them.
Sometimes, upon catching cold, before quite free from feverish symptoms, a second separation of the cuticle from the cutis occurred, but it appeared so thin as to be like scurf, demonstrating the quick renewal of the parts.
Priscian goes along with that disconsolate crowd, and Francesco of Accorso;[1] and thou mightest also have seen, hadst thou had desire of such scurf, him who by the Servant of Servants was translated from Arno to Bacchiglione, where he left his ill-strained nerves.[2] Of more would I tell, but the going on and the speech cannot be longer, for I see yonder a new cloud rising from the sand.
Quotes with SCURF (2)
John Farmer sat at his door one September evening, after a hard day's work, his mind still running on his labor more or less. Having bathed, he sat down to re-create his intellectual man. It was a rather cool evening, and some of his neighbors were apprehending a frost. He had not attended to the train of his thoughts long when he heard some one playing on a flute, and that sound harmonized with his mood. Still he thought of his work; but the burden of his thought was, that t…
With the ferrule of his walking-stick Denis began to scratch the boar's long bristly back. The animal moved a little so as to bring himself within easier range of the instrument that evoked in him such delicious sensations; then he stood stock still, softly grunting his contentment. The mud of years flaked off his sides in a grey powdery scurf. "What a pleasure it is," said Denis, "to do somebody a kindness. I believe I enjoy scratching this pig quite as much as he enjoys bei…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1990–2010).