crusted

Adjective

crusted

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.·1852, W. H. Hooper, “Lieutenant Hooper's Journal”, in Arctic Expedition, page 174
   • Concentric crusted structure may be formed in very different ways .1914, Franz Beyschlag, Johan Herman Lie Vogt, Paul Krusch, The deposits of the useful minerals & rocks, page 114
2. Characterized by crusty patches.
   • The ulcerated form of the tertiary syphilide, like that of the papular, almost invariably developes from the crusted modifications.1896, Paul Gerson Unna, The Histopathology of the Diseases of the Skin, page 563
   • From these squamous forms the others may develop by intensification of the inflammation; and thus we may get, on the one hand, the scabbed or crusted varieties (many cases of so-called psoriasis gyrata and annulata , and many dry eczemas), or, on the other hand, the weeping varieties (ecz. seb....1898, New Sydenham Society, Selected Monographs on Dermatology, page 55
3. Having a hardened or rough demeanor; crusty or gruff.
   • (see title)1894, Thomas Hardy, Life's Little Ironies: A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled a Few Crusted Characters
   • These are the crusted men Of the sea, measuring time By tide-fall, knowing the changeless Seasons, the lasting honeysuckle Of the sea.2009, Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain
4. 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.1901, “Championship Venues”, in Golf Illustrated, volume 10, page 154
   • 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.1911 December 15, Earnest Henry Starling, “Sixty-Ninth Day”, in Reports from Commissioner, Inspectors, and Others
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."1825 October, “Wines: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, &c.”, in The London Magazine, volume 3, page 218
   • I was returning at a late hour one evening from dining with a gentleman whose acquaintance I had recently formed, and was enjoying the common effects of a substantial repast and a few glasses of crusted port, in a considerable increase of the heroical faculties, and a more than wonted inclination...1852, John Stedman, “Old Jack”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, volume 22, page 232