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A joint trustee.

rd external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.…

A crust or shell.

ne of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.

Pertaining to crustaceology.

One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.

The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.

Relating to a crust.

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.