Crossword-Solution: TEGUMENT 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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.

But in the Homerical urn of Patroclus, whatever was the solid tegument, we find the immediate covering to be a purple piece of silk: and such as had no covers might have the earth closely pressed into them, after which disposure were probably some of these, wherein we found the bones and ashes half mortared unto the sand and sides of the urn, and some long roots of quich, or dog’s-grass, wreathed about the bones.

His whole face seemed to have been pinched and hammered together, so that it looked like a mask of pale bronze--a death mask, for it was hard to believe that blood ran below that dry tegument.

The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon.

They have all strength enough to break the ligneous tegument of the seed; they get out the kernel, and carry it to the tops of the trees.