Hypertext Webster Gateway: "custard"
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) 1.7 (wn)
custard
n : sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
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