*rind*

n. [ See Brindled. ] 1. The state of being brindled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brindled color; also, that which is brindled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brindled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ A dim. form of brinded. ] Having dark streaks or spots on a gray or tawny ground; brinded. “With a brindled lion played.” Churchill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Corrundum. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ground p. pr. & vb. n. Grinding. ] [ AS. grindan; perh. akin to L. frendere to gnash, grind. Cf. Grist. ] 1. To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Take the millstones, and grind meal. Is. xivii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. [ 1913 Webster ]

To grind the subject or defraud the prince. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To study hard for examination; -- commonly used with away; as, to grind away at one's studies. [ College Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Send thee
Into the common prison, there to grind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To perform hard and distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. [ Colloq. ] T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A student that studies hard; a dig; a wonk. [ College Slang ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

obs. p. p. of Grind. Ground. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. Named after D. H. Grindel, a Russian. ] (Med.) The dried stems and leaves of tarweed (Grindelia), used as a remedy in asthma and bronchitis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, grinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the double teeth, used to grind or masticate the food; a molar. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The restless flycatcher (Seisura inquieta) of Australia; -- called also restless thrush and volatile thrush. It makes a noise like a scissors grinder, to which the name alludes.

4. A submarine sandwich. [ local, U.S. ]
Syn. -- submarine, hoagie. [ PJC ]

Grinder's asthma,
Grinder's phthisis, or
Grinder's rot (Med.), a lung disease produced by the mechanical irritation of the particles of steel and stone given off in the operation of grinding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Leather workers' materials. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Grindery warehouse, a shop where leather workers' materials and tools are kept on sale. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Grind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grinding frame, an English name for a cotton spinning machine. --
Grinding mill. (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a grinding manner. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The bowfin; -- called also Johnny Grindle. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A grindstone. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small drain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

To hold one's nose to the grindstone,
To bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. --
To put one's nose to the grindstone (a) to oppress one; to cause one to work hard and steadily. (b) to set oneself to a long and arduous task. --
To keep one's nose to the grindstone to continue at a long and arduous task; to apply oneself steadily to one's duties. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Lacedæmonians to hold their noses to the grindstone. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A common thorny tropical American tree (Pithecellobium dulce) having terminal racemes of yellow flowers followed by sickle-shaped or circinate edible pods and yielding good timber and a yellow dye and mucilaginous gum.
Syn. -- camachile, huamachil, wild tamarind, Pithecellobium dulce. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. [ Mill + rynd. ] (Her.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A yellow dyestuff (C27H30O14) extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia) or from the bark of Coprosma australis. The substance is also found in the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia, called noni, which is touted by some merchants to have a stimulatory effect on the immune system. It is a disaccharide derivative of anthracenedione. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ AS. rind bark, crust of bread; akin to OHG. rinta, G. rinde, and probably to E. rand, rim; cf. Skr. ram to end, rest. ] The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind
With all thy charms, although this corporal rind
Thou hast immanacled. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweetest nut hath sourest rind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To remove the rind of; to bark. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., fr. rind, pl. rinder, cattle + pest pest, plague. ] A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. rynele. √11. See Run. ] A small water course or gutter. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of a rind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a rind or skin. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Superinduced p. pr. & vb. n. Superinducing ] [ Pref. super- + induce: cf. L. superinducere to draw over. ] To bring in, or upon, as an addition to something. [ 1913 Webster ]

Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Superinduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. tamarindo, or Sp. tamarindo, or Pg. tamarindo, tamarinho, from Ar. tamarhindī, literally, Indian date; tamar a dried date + Hind India: cf. F. tamarin. Cf. Hindu. ] (Bot.) 1. A leguminous tree (Tamarindus Indica) cultivated both the Indies, and the other tropical countries, for the sake of its shade, and for its fruit. The trunk of the tree is lofty and large, with wide-spreading branches; the flowers are in racemes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are small and finely pinnated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of the preserved seed pods of the tamarind, which contain an acid pulp, and are used medicinally and for preparing a pleasant drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tamarind fish, a preparation of a variety of East Indian fish with the acid pulp of the tamarind fruit. --
Velvet tamarind. (a) A West African leguminous tree (Codarium acutifolium). (b) One of the small black velvety pods, which are used for food in Sierra Leone. --
Wild tamarind (Bot.), a name given to certain trees somewhat resembling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]