Definition of crust

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Crust (n.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior..

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Cypris :: Cypris (n.) A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus..
Sedentary :: Sedentary (a.) Remaining in one place, especially when firmly attached to some object; as, the oyster is a sedentary mollusk; the barnacles are sedentary crustaceans..
Marmoration :: Marmoration (n.) A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.
Rupia :: Rupia (n.) An eruption upon the skin, consisting of vesicles with inflamed base and filled with serous, purulent, or bloody fluid, which dries up, forming a blackish crust..
Hippe :: Hippe (n.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura..
Ground :: Ground (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it..
Eczema :: Eczema (n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum..
Cephalothorax :: Cephalothorax (n.) The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax..
Crust :: Crust (n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling..
Brachyura :: Brachyura (n. pl.) A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the large cephalo-thorax. [Also spelt Brachyoura.] See Crab, and Illustration in Appendix..
Procrustesian :: Procrustesian (a.) See Procrustean.
Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The powder or crust thus formed.
Semi Crustaceous :: Semi crustaceous (a.) Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.
Dawsonite :: Dawsonite (n.) A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals..
Stalking-horse :: Stalk-eyed (a.) Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans..
Incrustation :: Incrustation (n.) The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted..
Endognath :: Endognath (n.) The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.
Candy :: Candy (v. t.) To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy..
Silicon :: Silicon (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. A
Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) The claw or terminal joint of a leg of an insect or crustacean.
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