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Scurf vs Roin - What's the difference?

scurf | roin |

As nouns the difference between scurf and roin

is that scurf is a skin disease while roin is .

scurf

English

Noun

  • A skin disease.
  • The flakes of skin that fall off as a result of a skin disease.
  • Any crust-like formations on the skin, or in general.
  • * Milton
    • There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top / Belched fire and rolling smoke; the rest entire / Shone with a glossy scurf .
  • (figurative) The foul remains of anything adherent.
  • * Dryden
    • The scurf is worn away of each committed crime.
  • (botany) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
    • (Gray)

    roin

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) runger, ultimately of imitative origin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To growl; to roar.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
    • Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne , when salvage choler gan redound.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) ruinne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A scab; a scurf, or scurfy spot.
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