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crusted

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crust  (krst)
n.
1.
a. The hard outer portion or surface area of bread.
b. A piece of bread consisting mostly of the hard outer portion.
c. A piece of bread that has become hard and dry.
2. A pastry shell, as of a pie or tart.
3. A hard crisp covering or surface: snow with a firm crust.
4. A hard deposit formed on the interior of a wine bottle as the wine matures.
5. Geology
a. The exterior portion of the earth that lies above the Mohorovii discontinuity.
b. The outermost solid layer of a planet or moon.
6. The hard outer covering or integument of certain plants and animals, such as lichens and crustaceans.
7. Pathology An outer layer or coating formed by the drying of a bodily exudate such as pus or blood; a scab.
8. Informal Insolence; audacity; gall.
v. crust·ed, crust·ing, crusts
v.tr.
1. To cover with a crust.
2. To form into a crust.
v.intr.
1. To become covered with a crust.
2. To harden into a crust.

[Middle English cruste, from Old French crouste, from Latin crsta; see kreus- in Indo-European roots.]

crustless adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.crusted - having a hardened crust as a covering
covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony"
Translations
crusted [ˈkrʌstɪd] adj (= encrusted) → encroûté(e)
to be crusted with dirt → être encroûté(e) de saleté
crusted
adjmit einer Kruste überzogen, krustig; bloodverkrustet


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All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
The blue of the line was crusted with steel color, and the brilliant flags projected.
The long breakers were sweeping in from the Atlantic with a low, insistent roar; as far as the eye could reach the waves were crusted with white foam.
 
 
 
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