Chapter Cruentate to Crust of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. The soft part of bread.

Dust unto dust, what must be, must;
If you can't get crumb, you'd best eat crust.
Old Song.

Crumb brush, a brush for sweeping crumbs from a table. — To a crum, with great exactness; completely.

Crumb
(Crumb), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumbed (kr?md); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbing ] To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]

Crumbcloth
(Crumb"cloth`) n. A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

Crumble
(Crum"ble) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbling ] [Dim. of crumb, v. t., akin to D. krimelen G. krmeln.] To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.

He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints,
And crumble all thy sinews.
Milton.

Crumble
(Crum"ble), v. i. To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.

If the stone is brittle, it will crumble and pass into the form of gravel.
Arbuthnot.

The league deprived of its principal supports must soon crumble to pieces.
Prescott.

Crumbly
(Crum"bly) a. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

Crumenal
(Cru"me*nal) n. [L. crumena purse.] A purse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Crummable
(Crum"ma*ble) a. Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.

Crummy
(Crum"my) a.

1. Full of crumb or crumbs.

2. Soft, as the crumb of bread is; not crusty.

Crump
(Crump) a. [AS. crumb stooping, bent down; akin to OHG. chrumb, G. krumm, Dan. krum, D. krom, and E. cramp.]

1. Crooked; bent. [Obs.]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders.
Jer. Taylor.

2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Hallivell.

Crumpet
(Crump"et) n. [Prob. from W. crempog, crammwgth, a pancake or fritter.] A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

Crumple
(Crum"ple) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumpled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumpling ] [Dim. fr. crump, a.] To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.

They crumpled it into all shapes, and diligently scanned every wrinkle that could be made.
Addison.

Crumple
(Crum"ple), v. i. To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple.

Crumpy
(Crump"y) a. Brittle; crisp. Wright.