scurf

As instances of this nature may be mentioned English potato scab, silver scurf, chestnut blight disease and citrus canker, specimens of all of which had been secured by correspondence or requests for mycological assistance.

There is some empirical proof that a big mess can be the sign of a creative mind, and that a swirl of scurf and funk can give birth to history-changing ideas.

The riverbank, eroded by powerful marine engines, has been shored up with metal pilings below scruffy new buildings, and the primary rainforest has been replaced by a thin scurf of secondary growth.

So now, when some drab functionary presents himself as speaking for the party, he is no more than scurf on a sea of money handed out by any opinionated casino magnate.

This kind of attention-demanding scurf only makes the online experience more confusing and less desirable, and the cycle begins again.