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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



... an Old Soldier to my door, Asked a crust, and asked no more; The wars had thinned him very bare, Fighting and marching everywhere, With a Fol rol dol ...
— Peacock Pie, A Book of Rhymes • Walter de la Mare
... for a long time on the ground, the buffalos fast for days together, and sometimes even weeks. If a warm day came, and thawed the upper surface of the snow, sufficiently for succeeding cold to freeze it into a crust, the outlook for the bison began to be serious. A man can travel over a crust through which the hoofs of a ponderous bison cut like chisels and leave him floundering belly-deep. It was at such times that the Indians ...
— The Land of the Miamis • Elmore Barce
... stores of natural fuel, stood in danger of having unloosed a monster whose power he seemed unable to control. Yet, as the sequel will show, science has been able to tackle with success the problems of mastering the force and of utilizing the energy which are thus locked up within the crust of the globe. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 • Various
... young fellow to take back his money and to desert this enterprise, that faith would die. I want men, and I shall take the widow's only son, the father of the family, the last hope of a broken heart. I want money, and I shall take the crust from the mouth of the starving, the pennies from the poor-box, the last cent of the poor, the vessels of the altar, anything and everything, for my cause. How many times has our struggle gone down in blood and shame because we let ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... "Upper crust," said the other, defining her symbol still further. "No middlins to 'em. Genteel as anybody. Just ...
— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson


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