Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with a crust; form a crust or coating on the surface of; coat; overlay: as, an ancient coin incrusted with rust.
- In decorative art, to cover with a different and generally more precious material in plates or pieces of appreciable thickness, requiring to be held in place by cramps, hooks, cement, or other appliances.
- To apply or inlay, as mosaic, slabs of precious marbles, enameled tiles, or the like, so as to form a decoration or covering.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of
- transitive verb (Fine Arts) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
encrust . - verb art To
inlay into, as a piece ofcarving or otherornamental object.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cover or coat with a crust
- verb form a crust or a hard layer
- verb decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was formerly believed that waters replete with calcareous earth, such as incrust the inside of tea-kettles, or are laid to petrify moss, were liable to produce or to increase the stone in the bladder.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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First we incrust a beautiful sashimi grade tuna steak in sesame seeds, pan seer it to medium rare perfection and then pair it with our mix of baby organic salad greens and sesame ginger dressing.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2006
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In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
Rhetoric of Freedom 1999
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In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
Rhetoric of Freedom 1999
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In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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England; and they, in their simplicity and good faith before God, sought to organize a system of civil and religious polity which should incrust all future generations, and harden them into a fossil state of perpetual orthodoxy.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Most waters contain some impurity which, when the water is evaporated, remains to incrust the surface of the vessel.
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Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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It's just the same principle as those lime springs that incrust things with lime.
Old Gorgon Graham Lorimer, George H 1903
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Our gems make bright her crown, incrust her throne:
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