Bible Dictionaries
Exfoliate

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.

(2):

(v. i.) To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.

(3):

(v. t.) To remove scales, laminae, or splinters from the surface of.