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noun

Crust n.

1.

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. "I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross." "Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever."

2.

(Cookery)

(a)

The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

(b)

The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.

(c)

The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; also called dumpling. "Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies." "He that keeps nor crust nor crumb." "They... made the crust for the venison pasty."

3.

(Geol.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.

4.

(Zool.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

5.

(Med.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

6.

An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.

verb

Crust v. t. (past & past part. crusted; pres. part. crusting) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust. "The whole body is crusted over with ice." "And now their legs, and breast, and bodies stood Crusted with bark." "Very foul and crusted bottles." "Their minds are crusted over, like diamonds in the rock."

Crust v. i. To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted. "The place that was burnt... crusted and healed."

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Etymology of 'Crust'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crust" Quotes from Famous Books

... after having demolished the whole of the plentiful supper, leaving scarcely a bone or a crust behind them, rushed out in a body, all the worse for a cask of old rye whisky that had been broached, and began to search for eligible stands from which to witness the exhibition of ...

— Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... between the true skin and the cuticle. The blisters may be of any size from a millet seed to a pea, and often crack open and allow the escape of the fluid, which concretes as a slightly yellowish scab or crust around the roots of the hairs. This exudation and the incrustation are especially common where the hairs are long, thick, and numerous, as in the region of the pastern of heavy draft horses. The term eczema is now applied very generally ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... to run to the window and shout to his servant (who was holding a knife in one hand and a crust of bread and a piece of sturgeon in the other—he had contrived to filch the latter while fumbling in the britchka ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... snapdragon and a rose or two; but the majority cared as much for the beauty of mid-June as for the cleanliness of their children,—an unsightly brood, with any slovenly rags about their bodies, and the circular crust of last week's treacle on their cheeks. In his abominable speeches before the war Gedge used to point out these children to unsympathetic Wellingsfordians as the Infant Martyrs of ...

— The Red Planet • William J. Locke

... a potash salt obtained from the crust formed upon bottles and casks by grape juice when it is undergoing fermentation in the process of becoming wine, is often used as a medicine. It has been cited as an infallible specific in cases of smallpox, but ...

— Food Remedies - Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses • Florence Daniel

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