crusted

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having or consisting of a crust.

   • The snow had all fallen from the trees, and the snow was very crusted by the action of the sun by day and succeeding frost at night, but not sufficiently to bear our weight.·
   • Concentric crusted structure may be formed in very different ways .
   • Theories explaining infiltration into layered or crusted soils have been developed .
2. 2

   Characterized by crusty patches.

   • The ulcerated form of the tertiary syphilide, like that of the papular, almost invariably developes from the crusted modifications.
   • A girl, aet. 11, came with a very crusted, neglected condition of the scalp which her mother stated had been present for about a month.
3. 3

   Having a hardened or rough demeanor

   Having a hardened or rough demeanor; crusty or gruff.

   • (see title)
   • These are the crusted men Of the sea, measuring time By tide-fall, knowing the changeless Seasons, the lasting honeysuckle Of the sea.
   • Unlike her watered-down authobiography, Times to Remember, Higham captures the essence of a crusted woman who had to be tough in order to put up with a boisterous husband like Joe Sr.
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   1. 4

      Extremely conservative

      Extremely conservative; hidebound; firmly established and inflexible.

      • For all that, it is the part of a very crusted Tory to affirm, as we all have heard it affirmed, that the worst seaside course is better than the best inland.
      • The scheme recommended in my memorandum is simpler in one respect, i.e., that you do not try and break down this very crusted system of each hospital for itself.
      • Except in certain passage in Tess and Jude, and possibly one or two in Two on a Tower, he is dealing with the relations of individuals in a very crusted old background of nature and custom .
   2. 5

      Of wine, aged and full of sediment.

      • As such, it certainly possesses some advantages to them beyond its difference of price—as it deposits the colour in the course of a year or two, and then passes for a very "fine old crusted wine."
      • Heavily crusted wine may have to be decanted from the bottle — more to improve its appearance than enhance its flavour.
   3. 6

      simple past and past participle of crust

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