Custard : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Custard	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Custard
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
custard n sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Custard \Cus"tard\ (k?s"t?rd), n. [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See {Crust}, and cf. {Crustated}.] A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. {Custard apple} (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona ({A. squamosa}, {reticulata}, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. {Custard coffin}, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] --Shak.