| The scurfy skin disease so common among savages has a close connexion with the poorness and irregularity of their living. |
| Serious plant pests are the San Jose scale, the oystershell scale, the scurfy scale, and the purple and red scale of citrus. |
| The winter buds are compressed, scurfy, and of a bright yellow color. |
| In pathology, a dry papulous or pimply eruption of the skin, terminating in scurfy exfoliations. |
| The child stared into the dry dish where his water once overflowed, and his stone flesh turned scurfy and cracked with dried algae like the sear and yellow skin of an old man. |
| Nearly half of them were afflicted with the scurfy skin-disease. |
