dandruff, dandriff, dandruffe

[Wel. ton =skin, and drwg =bad. ( Skeat.)] Path .: Pityriasis, a disease in which scurf forms in bran-like patches on the head, which exfoliate and recur without crusts or excoriations. There are several varieties; as, Pityriasis rubro , red dandruff; Pityriasis nigra , black dandruf, . ". the dandruffe or unseemely skales within the haire of the head or beard."- Holland: Plinie, uk. xx., ch. viii. which it is carried far and wide by the wind. The dăn-dỹ (1), s. [Fr. dandin , from Eng. dandle . leaves are lanceolate and sinuous, rising from a tap-root in the form of a rosette. 2. Pharm.: [TARAXACUM.] dandelion-root, s. Pharm .: Taraxaci Radix , the fresh and dried roots of Taraxacum Dens Leonis. It is used fresh in the preparation of Extractum Taraxaci , Succus Taraxaci , and dried for making Decoctum Taraxaci . Dandelion acts on the liver, modifying and increasing its secretion, and is given in hepatic diseases attended with an habitually engorged state of the ve els of that organ; it also promotes digestion. đăn-děr, v . i . [A corruption of dandle or daddle .] 1. To wander about. 2. To maunder, to talk incoherently. ( Littré .)] I. Ord. Lang.: A fop; a person extravagantly fond of dre ; a coxcomb. "First, touching Dandies , let us consider, with some scientific strictne , what a Dandy specially is. A Dandy is a Clothes IMG:content-1786.jpg:[graphic] wearing Man, a whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse and per son is heroic dăn-der (1), s. [A corruption of dandruff (q.v.).] ally conse1. Lit.: Dandruff. 2. Fig.: Pa ion, temper, anger. ( Slang. ) "What'll make ye act like freemen, What 'll get your dander riz?" James Ru ell Lowell .