a. [f. L. furfur bran + -OUS.] Resembling bran; containing bran or bran-like particles; made of bran.

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1547.  Boorde, Brev. Health, lxxiii. 23. A furfurouse water or urine that is lyke as branne were in it.

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1744.  Mitchell, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 144. Furfurous Desquammations.

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1822.  Syd. Smith, Wks. (1867), I. 359. Furfurous bread and the water of the pool constitute his food.

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