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furfur Path.|ˈfɜːfə(r)|
Pl. furfures. Also 7 furfaire, 9 arch. furfair.
[a. L. furfur bran.]
Dandriff, scurf; pl. particles of epidermis or scurf; also, a bran-like sediment in the urine.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. i. iii. (1651) 7 Grievances, which..are inward or outward..belonging to the brain, as baldness, falling of haire, furfaire. Ibid. ii. i. iv. iii. 231 Leprosie, Ulcers, Itches, Furfures, Scabs, etc. 1754Dict. Arts & Sc. II. 1358 Those excrementitious particles which are evacuated with the urine, are also called furfures. 1798–1808R. Willan Cutaneous Dis. in Cullen's Nosol. Method. App. (1820) 320 note, Furfur (scruf), small exfoliations of the cuticle which occur after slight inflammation of the skin. 1835Browning Paracelsus iv. 117 My outward crust Of lies, which wrap as tetter, morphew, furfair, Wrap the sound flesh. 1885Syd. Soc. Lex., Furfur, a term applied, especially in France, to the layers of cuticle, like to bran, which are detached from the skin in such diseases as pityriasis. |