Word Meanings - SCURF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. Gray. (more info) Dan. skurv, Icel. skurfur, D. schurft, G. schorf; all akin to AS. scurf, and to AS. sceorfan to scrape, to gnaw, G. schürfen to scrape, 1. Thin dry

Additional info about word: SCURF

Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. Gray. (more info) Dan. skurv, Icel. skurfur, D. schurft, G. schorf; all akin to AS. scurf, and to AS. sceorfan to scrape, to gnaw, G. schürfen to scrape, 1. Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff. 2. Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent. The scurf is worn away of each committed crime. Dryden. 3. Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface. There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire Shone with a glossy scurf. Milton.

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• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• SURFACE TENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth
• MEMBRANOUS
  Membranaceous. Membranous croup , true croup. See Croup. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• SCURF
  Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. Gray. (more info) Dan. skurv, Icel. skurfur, D. schurft, G. schorf; all akin to AS. scurf, and to AS. sceorfan to scrape, to gnaw, G. schürfen to scrape, 1. Thin dry
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• SCURFINESS
  Scurf. (more info) 1. Quality or state of being scurfy.
• SCURFY
  Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
• SCURFF
  The bull trout.
• SURFACE
  A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. (more info) 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face;
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• SURFACER
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• SCRAPE
  1. To rub over the surface of with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface; to grate harshly over; to abrade; to make even, or bring to a required condition or form, by moving
• SCRAPER
  1. An instrument with which anything is scraped. Specifically: An instrument by which the soles of shoes are cleaned from mud and the like, by drawing them across it. An instrument drawn by oxen or horses, used for scraping up earth in making or
• SCRAPEPENNY
  One who gathers and hoards money in trifling sums; a miser.
• LEAVES
  pl. of Leaf.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• DOUBLE-SURFACED
  Having two surfaces; -- said specif. of aëroplane wings or aërocurves which are covered on both sides with fabric, etc., thus completely inclosing their frames.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• INTERMEMBRANOUS
  Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.
• ADJUSTING PLANE; ADJUSTING SURFACE
  A small plane or surface, usually capable of adjustment but not of manipulation, for preserving lateral balance in an aëroplane or flying machine.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• SKYSCRAPER
  A name for the one of the fancy sails alleged to have been sometimes set above the skysail. A very tall building. (more info) A skysail of a triangular form.
• ADVANCING SURFACE
  The first of two or more surfaces arranged in tandem; -- contr. with following surface, which is the rear surface.