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, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumbed (kr?md); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbing (kr?m"?ng).] To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, to crumb bread. [Written also crum.]
Crumb"cloth` (-kl&?;th`; 115), n. A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]
Crum"ble (kr?m"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crumbled (-b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crumbling (-bl?ng).] [Dim. of crumb, v. t., akin to D. krimelen G. kr&?;meln.] 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.
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.
Crum"bly (-bl?), a. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.
Cru"me*nal (kr?"m?-nal), n. [L. crumena purse.] A purse. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Crum"ma*ble (krŭm"m&adot;*b'l), a. Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.
Crum"my (krŭm"m&ybreve;), a. 1. Full of crumb or crumbs.