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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.

Incrustation. [R.]

To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant.

The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust. Milton.

One who mistrusts.

Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings. Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood. Shak. -- Mis*trust"ful*ly, adv. -- Mis*trust"ful*ness, n.

With distrust or suspicion.

Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.

To incrust; to harden. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

To trust too much. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.

To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

See Procrustean.

Want of confidence in one' self; diffidence.

Faith in one's self; self-reliance.

Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.