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Pertaining to crustalogy.

One versed in crustalogy.

Crustaceology.

Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.

An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys.

Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.

Producing or forming a crust or skin. [R.]

In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.

The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.

Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a crusty surface or substance.

A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable.

An apocrustic medicine.

The removal of a crust.

A shortened form of Academia della Crusca, an academy in Florescence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conversing the purity of the Italian language.

Of or pertaining to the Accademia della Crusca in Florence. The Dellacruscan School, a name given in satire to a class of affected English writers, most of whom lived in Florence, about a. d. 1785.

To incrust. See Incrust.

That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation. Disengaging truth from its encrustment of error. I. Taylor.

To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. Thomson.

Incrusted. Bacon.

The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.