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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'

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"Crust" Quotes from Famous Books

... something to eat. But they jumped up and chased him off with their sticks, and the poor fox limped away on his three pads. As he ran he reached the spot where the youngest son was getting out the food he had brought with him, and the fox asked him for a crust of bread. The simpleton had not very much for himself, but he gladly gave half of his ...

— The Grey Fairy Book • Various

... get 'em. You see, there came a thaw, and the old snow got settled down, and a good hard crust froze on top of it; then there was a little snow last night, and the rabbits'll leave their tracks in that when they come out for a run on the crust. Old Nap knows. See him; he'll have ...

— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... all were brave, I need scarcely mention it, except to say that I do no not think anyone beat him at that. Boatswain's mate though he was, Toby Kiddle had a heart as gentle as a lamb's. He scarcely seemed cut out for the post, and yet there was a rough crust over it which enabled him to do his duty, and when he had to lay on with the cat, to shut his eyes, and to hit as hard as he was ordered. And yet I always have pitied a kind-hearted boatswain's mate, though he is not after all worse off than the ...

— Ben Burton - Born and Bred at Sea • W. H. G. Kingston

... I was going home—to that home distant enough for all its hearthstones to be like one hearthstone, by which the humblest of us has the right to sit. We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to me that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account. We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends—those whom we obey, and those whom we love; ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

... Germany and the bureaucracy of Austria; but it is revolting to see decent Italian countryfolk at the mercy of these uncouth savages, veritable cave-men, whose only intelligible expression is one of malice striving to break through a crust of congenital cretinism. ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

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