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Whole Wheat Crust(recipes)
Perfect Pie Crust(recipes)
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crust(1) (iou)



crust noun. ME.

The hard outer part of (a loaf, roll, or slice of) bread; a portion of this; a hard dry scrap of bread; a piece of bread as a meagre means of sustenance; slang (chiefly Austral. & NZ) a livelihood, a living. ME.
Keats Love in a hut, with water and a crust, IsLove, forgive us!cinders, ashes, dust. E. de Mauny 'What do you do for a crust?' 'I work on a newspaper.' S. Brett Anchovy paste sandwiches with the crusts cut off.
The pastry forming the covering of a pie. LME.
A hard dry formation on the skin covering a burn, ulcer, etc., or caused by a skin disease; a scab. LME.
H. Jolly This treatment clears the scalp..although crusts may reappear.
A more or less hard coating or deposit on the surface of anything; an incrustation; a deposit on the sides of a bottle, thrown by some ports and other wines; a harder layer over soft snow. LME.
P. Carey A dry crust of spittle marked the corners of her mouth. J. Grigson The cream takes 1 1 / 2 hours to form its crust.
A plank cut from the outside of a tree-trunk. Long obsolete exc. dial. L15.
Orig., the upper surface or layer of the ground. Now Geology, the outer rocky portion of the earth (spec. those parts above the Mohorovi?i? discontinuity), the moon, a planet, etc. M16.
A crusty person. Long arch. L16.
The hard external covering of an animal (esp. a crustacean) or plant; a shell, a husk. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
fig. A deceptive outward appearance; a superficial hardness of demeanour etc.; slang impudence, effrontery (cf. RIND noun1 3c). M17.
F. W. Robertson Break through the crust of his selfishness. P. G. Wodehouse The blighter had the cold, cynical crust to look me in the eyeball without a blink.
In leather manufacture, the state of skins when tanned but not yet dyed or coloured. Chiefly in in the crust. L17.
Phrases: continental crust: see CONTINENTAL adjective. OCEANIC crust. upper crust: see UPPER adjective.
crustless adjective without a crust, having the crust removed E20.