Word Meanings - DANDRUFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles. (more info) dirty, draffy, or W. drwg bad: cf. AS. tan a letter, an eruption. sq.

Related words: (words related to DANDRUFF)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• DRAFFY
  Dreggy; waste; worthless. The dregs and draffy part. Beau. & Fl.
• COMES
  The answer to the theme in a fugue.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• LETTERLESS
  1. Not having a letter. 2. Illiterate. E. Waterhouse.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• 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
• LETTERWOOD
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum , found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bows and for
• SCURFINESS
  Scurf. (more info) 1. Quality or state of being scurfy.
• ERUPTION
  The breaking out of pimples, or an efflorescence, as in measles, scarlatina, etc. (more info) 1. The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SEA LETTER
  The customary certificate of national character which neutral merchant vessels are bound to carry in time of war; a passport for a vessel and cargo.
• UNDERLETTER
  A tenant or lessee who grants a lease to another.
• BLACK-LETTER
  1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. 2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date. Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden. 3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar
• BLOODLETTER
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.