Vocabulary : Crusado to Crustacea

Crusado : An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents.
Cruse : A cup or dish. ;; A bottle for holding water, oil, honey, etc.
Cruset : A goldsmith's crucible or melting pot.
Crush : To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. ;; To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding; to comminute; as, to crush quartz. ;; To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight. ;; To oppress or burden grievously. ;; To overcome completely; to subdue totally. ;; To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force; as, an eggshell crushes easily. ;; A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin. ;; Violent pressure, as of a crowd; a crowd which produced uncomfortable pressure; as, a crush at a peception.
Crushed : of Crush

Crusher : One who, or that which, crushes.
Crushing : of Crush ;; That crushes; overwhelming.
Crust : The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. ;; The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard. ;; The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents. ;; The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling. ;; The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior. ;; The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc. ;; A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body. ;; An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing. ;; To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust. ;; To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
Crusta : A crust or shell. ;; A gem engraved, or a plate embossed in low relief, for inlaying a vase or other object.
Crustacea : One of the classes of the arthropods, including lobsters and crabs; -- so called from the crustlike shell with which they are covered.

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