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rind 1. the outer layer of a fruit or of the spore-producing body of certain fungi 2. the outer layer of the bark of a tree rind [rīnd] (botany) The bark of a tree. The thick outer covering of certain fruits. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. |
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