branny

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DEFINITION.—Measles is an acute infectious disease involving the skin and mucous membranes, characterized by successive stages and a maculo-papular eruption, which terminates in a fine branny desquamation.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Grades of Flour.—Flour is the purified, refined, and bolted product obtained by reduction and granulation of wheat during and after the removal of the branny portions of the wheat kernel.

From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Snyder, Harry

During the South African War of 1899-1902 the British army supply department had a practical proof of the diastasic action of branny particles in flour.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

As the fading proceeds, the spots drop off in the form of little branny scales, which are sometimes, from their minuteness, scarcely perceptible.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

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 Darwin, Erasmus