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n.

1. The hard outer portion or surface area of bread.
2. A piece of bread consisting mostly of the hard outer portion.
3. A piece of bread that has become hard and dry.
4. The exterior portion of the earth that lies above the Mohorovičić discontinuity.
5. The outermost solid layer of a planet or moon.
A pastry shell, as of a pie or tart.
A hard crisp covering or surface: snow with a firm crust.
A hard deposit formed on the interior of a wine bottle as the wine matures.
Geology
1. The exterior portion of the earth that lies above the Mohorovičić discontinuity.
2. The outermost solid layer of a planet or moon.
The hard outer covering or integument of certain plants and animals, such as lichens and crustaceans.
Pathology An outer layer or coating formed by the drying of a bodily exudate such as pus or blood; a scab.
Informal Insolence; audacity; gall.

v. crust·ed, crust·ing, crusts

v. tr.

To cover with a crust.
To form into a crust.

v. intr.

To become covered with a crust.
To harden into a crust.

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

crust'less adj.

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