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Encrust   /ɛnkrˈəst/   Listen
verb
encrust  v. t.  To incrust. See Incrust.


Incrust  v. t.  (past & past part. incrusted; pres. part. incrusting)  (Written also encrust)  
1.
To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. "And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard."
2.
(Fine Arts) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.





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"Encrust" Quotes from Famous Books



... of secondary origin, having been formed by the oxidation of galena in the upper parts of mineral lodes where these have been affected by weathering processes. At Monteponi the crystals encrust cavities in glistening granular galena; and from Leadhills, in Scotland, pseudomorphs of anglesite after galena are known. At most localities it is found as isolated crystals in the lead-bearing lodes, but at ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 • Various
... a fit of giddiness. He could hardly breathe in the close and vitiated air. His brain suffered, as it were, a physical and exceedingly painful ailment, from the repetition of images that seemed to encrust themselves there; and it was always Florence's beautiful features or Marie's livid face. And, in his distraught brain, while Marie lay dying, he heard the explosion at the Fauvilles' house and saw the Prefect of Police and Mazeroux lying hideously ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc
... or yellow vegetable structures which encrust our rocks, walls, and trees, and which are called Lichens, form a group of plants curiously ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various


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