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The hard 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.…

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

Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.

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

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

A sleeve covering the arm from the elbow to the hand. Crabb.

Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. Sir T. Browne.

n cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape of the Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered. Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.

A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- said of certain fishes.

A myth accounting for the discovery of arts and sciences or the advent of a higher civilization, as in the Prometheus myth.

Eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth; greed of gain; avarice; covetousness. With the feelings of political distrust were mingled those of cupidity and envy, as the Spaniard saw the fairest provinces of the south still in the hands of the accursed race of Ishmael. Prescott.

The ringing of an evening bell, originally a signal to the inhabitants to cover fires, extinguish lights, and retire to rest, -- instituted by William the Conqueror; also, the bell itself. He begins at curfew, and walks till the first cock. Shak. The village curfew, as it tolled profound. Campbell.

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion. Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.

e, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid.

A sight covering; a scarf. See Simar. Her body shaded with a light cymar. Dryden.

The scaly covering of the toes, as in birds.

Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.

An early variety of photograph, produced on a silver plate, or copper plate covered with silver, and rendered sensitive by the action of iodine, or iodine and bromine, on which, after exposure in the camera, the latent image is developed by the vapor of mercury.