- crust⇄adj. crustless.
- crust⇄adj. crustlike.
- crust⇄crust, noun, verb.
- crust⇄noun 1. the hard, outside part of bread.
Ex. Baking makes the crust hard and dry to protect the crumb inside.
2a. a piece of this.
Ex. The boy was told to eat the crusts of his sandwich.
b. any hard, dry piece of bread.
3 - crust⇄v.i. to form or become covered with a crust.
Ex. By the next day the snow had crusted over. - crust⇄v.t. 1. to cover with or as if with a crust; encrust.
Ex. The rocks were crusted with lichen.
2. to form into a crust; harden.
Ex. the dirt of half a century, crusted on the glass (Wilkie Collins).
3. to hunt (deer or other game