ˈrinded, a.
Also 7 rin'd, 9 rhinded.
[f. rind n.1 and its variant rine.]
Having a rind or bark, esp. of a specified kind. Also fig. with up.
| 1552 Huloet, Barked or rynded, corticatus. 1591 Spenser Virg. Gnat 209 Here also grew the rougher rinded Pine. 1622 Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d'Alf. Pref. Verses, An vn-hewne peece of wood, I long haue beene, Knotty, and rugged, rinded vp in sinne. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 342 Fruit of all kindes, in coate, Rough, or smooth rin'd. |
| 1826 Blackw. Mag. XIX. 382 Floating along on the morning air from..the hollow-rhinded woods. 1833 Tennyson Eleänore iii, With fruitage golden-rinded On golden salvers. 1841 Browning Pippa Passes ii, The soft-rinded smoothening facile chalk. |