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Crust   /krəst/   Listen
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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"Crust" Quotes from Famous Books



... at heart, and thought, "It were better to share the last crust with the children." His wife, however, would listen to nothing that he said, and scolded and ...
— Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) - Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales • Various

... pass through which the Thal wind brought the fog-spume. He had melted like the mist, and, so far as we were concerned, there was an end. We waited here till the second snow fell, hardened, and formed its sleighing crust. ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... through the gorge beneath, and ahead lay a sharply rising waste of rock and snow. His path led across it, and after a word or two with the men on the line he began his journey, breaking through the thin, frozen crust. The sounds behind him grew fainter and ceased; the trail of dingy smoke which had followed him melted away, and he was alone in the wilderness. His course was marked, however, by a pile of stones here, a blazed tree there, and he plodded on all day. When night came he ...
— Prescott of Saskatchewan • Harold Bindloss

... middle-age-manners-adapter, Be it a thing to be glad on or sorry on, Some day or other, his head in a morion And breast in a hauberk, his heels he'll kick up, Slain by an onslaught fierce of hiccup. And then, when red doth the sword of our Duke rust, And its leathern sheath lie o'ergrown with a blue crust, Then I shall scrape together my earnings; For, you see, in the churchyard Jacynth reposes, 870 And our children all went the way of the roses: It's a long lane that knows no turnings. One needs but little tackle to travel in; So, just one stout cloak shall ...
— Dramatic Romances • Robert Browning

... antecedent circumstances. In a third type of play, common of late years, and especially affected by Ibsen, the curtain rises on a surface aspect of profound peace, which is presently found to be but a thin crust over an absolutely volcanic condition of affairs, the origin of which has to be traced backwards, it may ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer


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