Word Meanings - DECRUSTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The removal of a crust.

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• CRUSTAL
  Relating to a crust.
• CRUSTINESS
  1. The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness. 2. The quality of being crusty or surly. Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness. W. Irving.
• CRUSTACEOUS
  Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
• CRUSTALOGY
  Crustaceology.
• CRUSTALOGIST
  One versed in crustalogy.
• CRUSTILY
  In a crusty or surly manner; morosely.
• CRUSTATION
  An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys.
• CRUSTACEA
  One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered. Note: The body usually consists of an anterior part, made up of the head and thorax combined, called
• CRUSTY
  Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak. (more info) 1. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a
• CRUSTIFIC
  Producing or forming a crust or skin.
• CRUSTACEOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell.
• CRUST
  The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior. (more info) akin to Gr. crystal, from the same root as E. crude, raw. See Raw, 1. The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard
• CRUSTACEOLOGICAL
  Pertaining to crustaceology.
• CRUSTACEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crustacea; crustaceous. -- n.
• CRUSTA
  1. A crust or shell. 2. A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
• CRUSTACEOLOGY
  That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.
• CRUSTATED
  Covered with a crust; as, crustated basalt.
• CRUSTACEOLOGIST
  One versed in crustaceology; a crustalogist.
• CRUSTED
  Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.
• CRUSTALOGICAL
  Pertaining to crustalogy.
• PROCRUSTESIAN
  See PROCRUSTEAN
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• DECRUSTATION
  The removal of a crust.
• KISSINGCRUST
  The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking. Lamb. A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.
• ENCRUST
  To incrust. See Incrust.
• PROCRUSTES
  A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.
• INCRUST
  To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. (more info) 1. To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with
• PROCRUSTEAN
  Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.
• PROCRUSTEANIZE
  To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.