Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - crust
Crust
crust
n. & v. --n. 1 a the hard outer part of a loaf of bread. b a piece of this with some soft bread attached. c a hard dry scrap of bread. d esp. Austral. sl. a livelihood (what do you do for a crust?). 2 the pastry covering of a pie. 3 a hard casing of a softer thing, e.g. a harder layer over soft snow. 4 Geol. the outer portion of the earth. 5 a a coating or deposit on the surface of anything. b a hard dry formation on the skin, a scab. 6 a deposit of tartar formed in bottles of old wine. 7 a sl. impudence (you have a crust!). b a superficial hardness of manner. --v.tr. & intr. 1 cover or become covered with a crust. 2 form into a crust. Derivatives crustal adj. (in sense 4 of n.). Etymology: ME f. OF crouste f. L crusta rind, shell
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ~a; akin to Old English hrūse earth, Greek kryos icy cold, krystallos ice, crystal Date: 14th century 1. the hardened exterior or surface part of bread, a piece of this or of bread grown dry or hard, the pastry cover of a pie, a hard or brittle external coat or covering: as, a hard surface layer (as of soil or snow), the outer part of a planet, moon, or asteroid composed essentially of crystalline rocks, a deposit built up on the interior surface of a wine bottle during long aging, an en~ing deposit of dried secretions or exudate, gall, nerve, ~ verb ~al adjective ~less adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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