• rind: Lit.: expr. by crusta (a hard crust), cŭtis, is, f. (skin), cŏrium (prop. leather; tough covering), acc. to Plin. 15, 28, 34, "crusta teguntur glandes, cute uvae, corio et membrana Punica" (pomegranates): a r. composed of woody fibre, lignea membrana (membrane), id. 15, 22, 24: cortĭcŭlus (dimin. of cortex, bark) is used of the outside of the olive, Col. 12, 50: tŭnĭca (with dimin. tŭnĭcŭla, Fest.: Plin.) is applied to the skin of mushrooms in Plin. 22, 22, 46: v. also bark. Fig.: it is the mere thin r. (of happiness), crusta est et quidem tenuis, Sen. Prov. 6, 4: this fleshly r., corporeus cortex, Varro in Non. 199, 29.