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An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

Parsimonious; stingy. "A crusty old fellow, as close as a vise." Hawthorne.

the size of an egg to that of a football; -- called also cobbles. Grose. -- Cob loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf, rounded at top. Wright. -- Cob money, a kind of rudely coined gold and silver money of Spanish South America in the eighteenth century. The coins were of the weight of the piece of eight, or one of its aliquo…

, ignited with alumina; -- called also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue. -- Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt. -- Cobalt glance. (Min.) See Cobaltite. -- Cobalt green, a pigment consisting essentially of the oxides of cobalt and zinc; -- called also Rinman's green. -- Cobalt yellow (Chem.), a yellow cr…

A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie. Of the paste a coffin I will rear. Shak.

An order of Entomastraca, including many minute Crustacea, both freshwater and marine.

The first joint of the leg of an insect or crustacean.

One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen is small and curled up beneath the body.

Any crustacean of the family Astacidæ, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North American species are numerous and mostly belong to the genus Cambarus. The blind crawfish of the Mamoth Cave is Cambarus pellucidus. The…

in water. -- Cream of tartar (Chem.), purified tartar or argol; so called because of the crust of crystals which forms on the surface of the liquor in the process of purification by recrystallization. It is a white crystalline substance, with a gritty acid taste, and is used very largely as an ingredient of baking pow…

Crisp; brittle; as. a crispy pie crust.

part of bread. Dust unto dust, what must be, must; If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust. Old Song. Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. -- To a crum, with great exactness; completely.

Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.

An order of marine Crustacea, mostly of small size.

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

A genus of small, bivalve, freshwater Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.

The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.

Of or pertaining to a finger or toe, or to the claw of an insect crustacean.