rhind

• “My rhind was a prism, diffracting input into a synesthesia of pleaslrre ....”

  Dreamfall

• “I think mine should be able to find other words to describe stuff but insists on screaming "I want the/a big one". this could mean the floppy cheese, orange with the rhind on or just more.”

  Randompie

• “Sometimes thrown out by the waves. it is of a pale yellowish brown colour. the rhind Smooth and consistency harder than that of the pumpkin, tho easily cut with a knife. there are Some fibers of a lighter colour and much harder than any other part which pass”

  The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

• “The outer rhind of the nut stamped serves as oakum for caulking ships, and the hard inner shell serves for spoons and other utensils for holding food or drink.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07

• “The inner rhind is like cotton or flax, and can be wrought in the same manner.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07

• “The outer rhind of these nuts is removed, and thrown into the fire, where it burns quickly and with a strong flame.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07

• “Their chief product is cocoa-nut trees, the kernel of these nuts producing a pleasant and nutritive fruit, while the outer rhind or husk is useful for making cables.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

• “Wee got into it, & the young Captain admired to see a litle thing made of the rhind of a”

  Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson

• “The manner of my life, who can express! the fountain-water was my only drink; the crabbed juice and rhind of half-ripe lemons almost my only food, except some roots; my house, the widowed cave of some wild beast.”

  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05

• “The root of the thistle, called by the natives Shan-ne-tah-que is [a] perpendicular fusiform and possesses from two to four radicles; is from 9 to 15 Inc [h] es in length and about the size [of] a mans thumb; the rhind somewhat rough and of a brown colour; the consistence when first taken from the earth is white and nearly as crisp as a carrot; when prepared for uce by the same process before discribed of the white bulb or pashshequo quawmash, it becomes black, and is more shugary than any f [r] uit or root that I have met with in uce among the natives; the sweet is precisely that of the sugar in flavor; this root is sometimes eaten also when first taken from the ground without any preperation, but in this way is vastly inferior, it delights most in a deep rich dry lome which has a good mixture of sand. the stem of this plant is simple ascending”

  Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806

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