crust - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'crust' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Crust

[ n.]

- The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
- The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
- The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
- The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
- The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
- The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
- A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
- An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
- To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.

2 . Crust

[ v. i.]

- To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

Meaning of 'crust' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . crust

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- form a crust or form into a crust

Example in sentence:

The bread crusted in the oven

Nearby Words:

cruces crucial crucian carp cruciate cruciation crucible crucifer cruciferous crucified crucifier

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Crustose
Crustose is a flat crustlike growth of lichens.

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