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rind

 (rīnd)
n.
A tough outer covering such as bark, the skin of some fruits, or the coating on cheese or bacon.

[Middle English, from Old English.]
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rind

(raɪnd)
n
1. (Cookery) a hard outer layer or skin on bacon, cheese, etc
2. (Botany) the outer layer of a fruit or of the spore-producing body of certain fungi
3. (Botany) the outer layer of the bark of a tree
[Old English rinde; Old High German rinta, German Rinde]
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rind

(raɪnd)

n.
1. a thick and firm outer coat or covering: watermelon rind; orange rind; bacon rind.
2. the bark of a tree.
[before 900; Middle English, Old English rind(e) tree bark, crust; c. German Rinde]
rind′less, adj.
rind′y, adj.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.

rind

  • crust - From French crouste, from Latin crusta, "rind, shell; incrustation."
  • pith - First referred to the spongy cellular tissue in the stems and branches of many plants, and also the spongy white tissue lining the rind of citrus fruits.
  • rind, peel - The rind is the hard or tough covering on oranges, grapefruit, and watermelon; once removed, skin or rind is usually known as peel.
  • sward - The rind of bacon or pork.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.rind - the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
bacon rind - the rind of bacon
peel, skin - the rind of a fruit or vegetable
cheese rind - the rind of a cheese
material, stuff - the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

rind

noun
1. skin, peel, outer layer, epicarp grated lemon rind
2. crust, covering, shell, husk, integument Cut off the rind of the cheese
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

rind

noun
The outer covering of a fruit:
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Translations
قِشْرَه، سَطْح جاف
kůra
skalskorpesvær
kuori
börkur; hÿîi; para; skorpa
ādiņamiza
lupina

rind

[raɪnd] N [of fruit] → cáscara f; [of cheese, bacon] → corteza f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

rind

[ˈraɪnd] n
[bacon] → couenne f
[cheese] → croûte f
(= peel) [lemon, orange] → écorce f
grated rind of 1 orange → zeste d'une orange
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

rind

n (of cheese)Rinde f; (of bacon)Schwarte f; (of fruit)Schale f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

rind

[raɪnd] n (of fruit) → buccia; (of lemon) → scorza; (of cheese) → crosta; (of bacon) → cotenna
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

rind

(raind) noun
a thick, hard outer layer or covering, especially the outer surface of cheese or bacon, or the peel of fruit. bacon-rind; lemon-rind.
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References in classic literature ?
Shimerda and Krajiek drove up in their wagon to take Peter to the train, they found him with a dripping beard, surrounded by heaps of melon rinds.
Chambers did his stealing, and got the peach stones, apple cores, and melon rinds for his share.
He quickly cleared one of the trees on which there were two or three of the fruit, but to our chagrin they proved to be much decayed; the rinds partly opened by the birds, and their hearts half devoured.
Then she peeled it, ate it, and threw the rind out of the window, and it so happened that a mare that was running loose in the court below ate up the rind.
I therefore made no scruple of gathering and eating it, without knowing that the inhabitants always peeled it, the rind being a violent purgative; so that, eating the fruit and skin together, I fell into such a disorder as almost brought me to my end.
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.
They walked over to a monstrous big, hollow pumpkin which had a door and windows cut through the rind. There was a stovepipe running through the stem, and six steps had been built leading up to the front door.
The colour on her cheek was like the bloom on a good apple, which is as sound at the core as it is red on the rind.
If now we were to try to penetrate to the soul of Quasimodo through that thick, hard rind; if we could sound the depths of that badly constructed organism; if it were granted to us to look with a torch behind those non-transparent organs to explore the shadowy interior of that opaque creature, to elucidate his obscure corners, his absurd no-thoroughfares, and suddenly to cast a vivid light upon the soul enchained at the extremity of that cave, we should, no doubt, find the unhappy Psyche in some poor, cramped, and ricketty attitude, like those prisoners beneath the Leads of Venice, who grew old bent double in a stone box which was both too low and too short for them.
They had Camembert cheese, and it disgusted Philip to see that she ate rind and all of the portion that was given her.
In fact, one of them offered her a gourd of milk--a filthy, smoke-begrimed gourd, with the ancient rind of long-curdled milk caked in layers within its neck; but the spirit of the giver touched her deeply, and her face lightened for a moment with one of those almost forgotten smiles of radiance that had helped to make her beauty famous both in Baltimore and London.