Definition of Crust

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Definition of Crust

Crust

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.

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

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Crust Quotations

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.
Morgan Freeman

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Henry Ellis

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.
Emma Thompson

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.
Christiaan Barnard

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.
Giovanni Guareschi

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
Robert Farrar Capon

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Harry Reasoner

Crust Translations

crust in French is abaisse
crust in German is Kruste, Kruste
crust in Norwegian is skare, skorpe
crust in Spanish is costra
crust in Swedish is skorpa

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