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Scurf; dandruff.

Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

A colorless, oily substance, C4H4O, obtained by distilling certain organic substances, as pine wood, salts of pyromucic acid, etc.; -- called also tetraphenol.

Falling of scurf from the head; desquamation.

A white, crystalline base, obtained indirectly from furfurol.

ained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.

Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] "Furfurous bread." Sydney Smith.

istinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc.

An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with, furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds.

A colorless, crystalline substance, C10H8O4, from furfurol.

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

s a white crystalline substance by the distillation of mucic acid, or by the oxidation of furfurol.

A liquid hydrocarbon obtained together with furfuran (tetrol) by the distillation of pine wood; -- called also methyl tetrol, or methyl furfuran.

Furfuran. [Obs.]

ogous to benzene; -- so called from the four carbon atoms in the molecule. Tetrol phenol, furfuran. [Obs.]

A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.