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

The removal of a crust.

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust. Not distrusting my health. 2 Mac. ix. 22. To distrust the justice of your cause. Dryden. He that requireth the oath doth distrust that other. Udall. Of all afraid, Dis…

One who distrusts.

Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest; as, distrustful of ourselves, of one's powers. Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks. Pope.

That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.

Free from distrust. Shenstone.

To incrust. See Incrust.

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

See Intrust.

Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.

Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] South.

Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak.

In vain. [Obs.] Vicars.

The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs

Tending to defeat; fallacious. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Making void; rendering null; as, a frustratory appeal. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

The siliceous shell of a diatom. It is composed of two valves, one overlapping the other, like a pill box and its cover.

Abounding in fragments. [R.]

The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.