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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…

A crucible or melting pot; a cruset. Crabb.

Crisp; brittle; as. a crispy pie crust.

A holy war; a crusade. [Obs.] Bacon.

A crusader. [Obs.] The conquesta of the croises extending over Palestine. Burke.

To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak.

See Cruse, a small bottle.

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.

To draw or press into wrinkles or folds to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper. They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made. Addison.

To crush with the teeth; to chew with a grinding noise; to craunch; as, to crunch a biscuit.

See Crus.

A coin. See Crusado.

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.

"water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.