Bible Dictionary: Crust

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

2. (n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

3. (n.) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.

4. (n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.

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

6. (n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.

7. (n.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

8. (n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.

9. (n.) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.

10. (v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.

Strong's Hebrew

1487. gush -- a clod, lump
... 1486, 1487. gush. 1488 . a clod, lump. Transliteration: gush Phonetic
Spelling: (goosh) Short Definition: crust. Word Origin from ...
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Library

Earth's Ugliest, Deepest Scar.
... scenes more congenial to himself. The wilderness is one of the most marked
spots on the earth's crust. That remarkable stretch of ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks about jesus/earths ugliest deepest scar.htm

Wesley on Geology and Rousseau
... some such manner as he describes; 2) that the antediluvian earth was without high
or abrupt mountains, and without sea, being one uniform crust, enclosing the ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/wesley on geology and rousseau.htm

Geological Reform.
... clear is he, that no causes beside such as are now in operation are needed to account
for the character and disposition of the components of the crust of the ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/xi geological reform.htm

What is Your Word Worth?
... do. There is an old saying that "promises are like pie-crust"made to be broken."
Are your promises of the pie-crust variety? Possibly ...
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The Sign for Man and the Remembrancer for God
... Now, as then, when any great convulsions shake what seems permanent, and bring home
to men the thinness of the crust of use and wont roofing an infinite depth ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the sign for man and.htm

Ears and no Ears
... What can a poor man like me do to get through that crust of familiarity with the
mere surface of Christian truth and teaching which is round many of you? ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/ears and no ears.htm

Entire Sanctification a Necessity.
... As the basis of Astronomy is the universe of worlds revealed by the telescope, and
as the basis of Geology is the crust of the earth, so the basis of Theology ...
/.../clark/the theology of holiness/chapter i entire sanctification a.htm

The Future State a Self-Conscious State.
... Though I may never have been in Italy, I yet know that the soil of Italy is a part
of the common crust of the globe, that the Apennines are like other ...
/.../shedd/sermons to the natural man/the future state a self-conscious.htm

The Christian Faith
... that evil, while outwardly his life is moral and upright, it is only a question
of time when the inner badness will break through the thin crust of outer ...
/.../sell/studies in the life of the christian/study v the christian faith.htm

But we must Follow Our Preacher, who Can Only Turn Away with ...
... ourselves to be in? That tears were raining on this crust of earth in that
far-off time, exactly as they are to-day? Yes, indeed, it ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter iv but we must.htm

Thesaurus

Crust (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface
or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. ...Crust (3 Occurrences). ...
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Earthquake (17 Occurrences)
... In the slow process of cooling, the crust of the earth tends to wrinkle
and fold as it contracts. This causes a stress to be set ...
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Coffin (2 Occurrences)
... burial. 2. (n.) A basket. 3. (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry,
as for a pie. 4. (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers. ...
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Lees (3 Occurrences)
... be better preserved (Isaiah 25:6). "Men settled on their lees" (Zephaniah 1:12)
are men "hardened or crusted." The image is derived from the crust formed at ...
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Ground (538 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Grind. 2. (n.) The surface of the earth;
the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it. ...
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Rock (176 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Any natural deposit forming a part of the earth's crust, whether consolidated
or not, including sand, earth, clay, etc., when in natural beds. ...
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Eruption (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out
of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. ...
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Eczema (3 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Dash (30 Occurrences)
... used with against. 2. (vt) To break, as by throwing or by collision; to
shatter; to crust; to frustrate; to ruin. 3. (vt) To put ...
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Paste (10 Occurrences)
... making potter's ware. 2. (n.) Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared
for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough. 3. (n.) A ...
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Bible Concordance

Crust (3 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 2:36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
(See NIV)

Job 7:5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 17:1 Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Crust

Related Terms

Earthquake (17 Occurrences)

Coffin (2 Occurrences)

Lees (3 Occurrences)

Ground (538 Occurrences)

Rock (176 Occurrences)

Eruption (6 Occurrences)

Eczema (3 Occurrences)