Crossword-Solution: SCURFY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scurfy | superl. | Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SCURFY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Covered with scales | 2 answers |
| HAVING rough surface | 3 answers |
| Scabrous | 14 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMCZAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SCURFY (5)
Sameness locks no scurfy pond Here for Custom, crazy-fond: Change is on the wing to bud Rose in brain from rose in blood.
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.
The scurfy skin disease so common among savages has a close connexion with the poorness and irregularity of their living.
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.
The farmer diagnoses the weather daily, as the doctor a patient: he feels the pulse of the wind; he knows when the clouds have a scurfy tongue, or when the cuticle of the day is feverish and dry, or soft and moist.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1994).