Scurff

n.1.The bull trout.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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There stood a Hill not far whose griesly top Belch'd fire and rowling smoak; the rest entire Shon with a glossie scurff, undoubted sign That in his womb was hid metallic Ore, The work of Sulphur.
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I was afflicted with a succession of boils, sometimes two or three together, each when heal'd left round about it spots of scurff, which obstinately continu'd.
America breaks free: "this nation," declared Benjamin Franklin, "was established in spite of [any number of] obstacles, with an expedition, energy, wisdom, and success which the whole history of human affairs has not, hitherto, given an example."
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