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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CUSTARD, n. A composition of milk and eggs, sweetened and baked or boiled, forming an agreeable kind of food.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, a kind of pie, alteration of crustarde, crustade, probably from Anglo-French *crustade, from cruste crust, from Latin crusta — more at crust Date: circa 1706 a pudding-like usually sweetened mixture made with eggs and milk • custardy adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a dish made with milk and eggs, usu. sweetened. 2 a sweet sauce made with milk and flavoured cornflour. Phrases and idioms: custard-apple a W. Indian fruit, Annona reticulata, with a custard-like pulp. custard-pie 1 a pie containing custard, commonly thrown in slapstick comedy. 2 (attrib.) denoting slapstick comedy. custard powder a preparation of cornflour etc. for making custard. Etymology: ME, earlier crusta(r)de f. AF f. OF crouste CRUST

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(custards) Custard is a sweet yellow sauce made from milk and eggs or from milk and a powder. It is eaten with fruit and puddings. ...bananas and custard. N-MASS