tegument

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Sunlight streams through the big picture window, though it’s cold, down to zero overnight, and the lake is sealed beneath a hard uneven tegument of ice so thick you could drive a truck across it.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 11, 2010

But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none.

From Time Magazine Archive

The outer tegument of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united along its margins, but always more or less open at its apex.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

The fruit, which somewhat resembles a pear, has a rough tegument covered with minute prickles, which instantly enter the hand which touches them, however slightly, and are very difficult to extract. 

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry

Certainly Nature, foreseeing the cruel usage which this useful servant to man should receive at man's hand, did prudently in furnishing him with a tegument impervious to ordinary stripes.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various