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Definition of Crusts
1. crust [v] - See also: crust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusts
Literary usage of Crusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Keeping It Clean: Removing Exterior Dirt, Paint, Stains and Graffiti from by Anne E. Grimmer (1992)
"Dirt or soiling may include disfiguring pollutant or sulfate crusts, which usually
... Some pollutant crusts resulting from a chemical reaction of stone to ..."
2. A Manual of the practice of medicine: Prepared Especially for Students by Arthur Albert Stevens (1908)
"The crusts are generally associated with pustules and vesicles ; the surrounding
skin is red ... crusts of seborrhea are generally observed on the scalp. ..."
3. A Text-book of Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer (1915)
"If both upper and lower crusts are used, the lower should be moistened around the
... As was mentioned before, upper crusts should always be cut in several ..."
4. The Pathology and Treatment of Venereal Diseases by Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1883)
"The crusts of late syphilitic ulcers have a brownish-black color and a rough ...
The character of the crusts, the rapid progress and regular margins of the ..."
5. The Philosophy of Zoology: Or, A General View of the Structure, Functions by John Fleming (1822)
"In some cases, however, as the crusts of the bodies of insects, the earthy matter
... Where they contain much earthy matter, as in the crusts of lobsters, ..."
6. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1854)
"The largest crusts were of a greyish yellow colour, of the consistence ef dried
putty ... The surface of these crusts was very irregular ; it had a pitted, ..."