branny
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of branny
Example Sentences
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As the rash subsides the skin is left rough, and by degrees scales off, often in large flakes from the hands and feet, but elsewhere in a sort of branny scales.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
The granulation of the middlings is done after the impurities are removed, the object being first to separate as perfectly as possible the middlings from the branny portions of the kernel.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
At another time 1 1/2 grains of the drug gave rise to herpetic vesicles on the cheeks, followed by branny desquamation on elimination of the drug.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
It came on suddenly, was visible for a short time, and then gradually disappeared, leaving, in some instances, a branny substance, consisting of a desquamation of the cuticle.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
The skin is rough with white branny scales, which are full of chinks; often moist beneath, and itching.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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