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A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastr…

Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop, custard apple, etc.

An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.

or Charlotte à la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte] (Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed in sponge cake.

Its delicious fruit, which is succulent, dark purple, and similar to the custard apple of the West Indies.

A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.

A shell or cup of pastry filled with custard, whipped cream, crushed macaroons, etc.

A custard. [Obs.]

A sort of flat custard or pie. [Obs.] Tusser.

at on the water of American ponds. -- Floating island, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs. -- Floating kidney. (Med.) See Wandering kidney, under Wandering. -- Floating light, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc…

A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. [Obs.] Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines. Beau. & Fl.

Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.

A sumptuous repast; a banquet. Johnson. Cowper. Two baked custards were produced as additions to the regale. E. E. Hale.

e (Anona muricata) of the West Indies; also, the tree itself. It is closely allied to the custard apple.

A kind of custard apple (Anona squamosa). See under Custard.