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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: custard n : sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
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