rare0. [f. L. furfur bran + -ATION.] The shedding of the skin in small branny particles (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Furfuration, the falling of Dandriff or Scurf from the Head, when it is combd.
1721. in Bailey.
1854. in Mayne, Exp. Lex.