What is "rind"

Usage examples of "rind".

When he looked back the way he had come he could see the Gull of Moray anchored not far off a tiny rind of beach that clung precariously to the foot of the soaring rocky cliffs where the mountains fell into the sea.

Its fresh root is bitter, and a milky juice flows from the rind, which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, so that this specially suits persons troubled with bilious torpor, and jaundice combined with melancholy.

The beans, massive, mottled spheres a little larger than his fist, were stored in open boxes, protected by their hard rinds, but they, too, showed both an abundance of ascorbic acid and a complete absence of anything that might block its uptake.

Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.

In some previous place I have described to you how the blubber wraps the body of the whale, as the rind wraps an orange.

Kitten waddled over to help, or at least to eat the rind that Daine cut from the meat.

Their wounded hearts, and names we find Encarved upon the leaves and rind.

The large white monkey with its brown haunting eyes, as if she had suddenly wrested its interest from the orange-like fruit in its crisped paw, the grey background, the empty rinds all round--bright splashes in a general ghostliness of colour, impressed her at once.

With all thy charms, although this corporal rind Thou hast immanacled, while Heaven sees good.

These kumquats were of a variety developed in modern times and Torve was eating only the sweet golden rinds and setting the little fruits aside.

Its outer rind was a thick tissue of megaflop impolex that had been microwired to act as a computer and as a magnetic field drive, feeding off the energy of the radioactive polonium core.

His health remained strong throughout this period, interrupting his three-month burst of creativity only once, in early November, when Suor Maria Celeste and Suor Luisa treated his brief indisposition by sending him five ounces of their vinegary oxymel concoction and some syrup of citron rind to ameliorate its bitter taste.

At least, thatwas what the children thought he said , and so they all turned their heads, perhaps in anticipation of seeing an organ rinder and his monkey.

He learned how to use a separatory funnel that could draw off the purest oil of crushed lemon rinds from the milky dregs.

A tree with dark-yellowish leaves, taller than most timber trees on Earth, bore at the end of drooping twigs large dark-red fruits--fruits with a rind something like that of a pomegranate, save for the colour and hardness, and about the size of a shaddock or melon.