encrusts

At one point he acquires a live turtle, whose shell he encrusts with carefully selected gems.

Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century Nicholas Frankel 2011

He uses French leather and encrusts it with jewels, feathers, mirrors, and taps into Romanian women's perennial love affair with high heels.

Skyscraper Sandal: Romanian Shoemaker Mihai Albu Designs 12-INCH Stiletto (PHOTOS, POLL) 2010

Those qualities are still there, visible only to those who can tear away the carapace of convention that encrusts the Mona Lisa.

We Are Blind to Her Charms 2009

But over time it encrusts the new technology with assemblies and subassemblies needed for superior performance.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

For a kind of mythology now encrusts Morandi's reputation -- so thickly that it almost conceals his art.

Taking Stock of a Reticent and Reclusive Master 2008

Sapphire cicada-shell encrusts icy freshness in robin's egg;

Sunniva Fred 2007

Sapphire cicada-shell encrusts icy freshness in robin's egg;

Archive 2007-02-01 Fred 2007

Namapoikia encrusts perpendicular to the walls of vertical synsedimentary fissures in microbial reefs.

The Cambrian as an evolutionary exemplar - The Panda's Thumb 2005

The poem is re-created in glowing phrases — “A rich distilled perfume emanates from it like the breath of genius; a golden cloud envelops it; a honeyed paste of poetic diction encrusts it, like the candied coat of the auricula”.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

A white-frost fog blots out everything at fifty yards, and a white sugary frost encrusts the grass.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps