incrust
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Save but our army! and let Jove incrust Swords, pikes, and guns, with everlasting rust!
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Gilfillan, George
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.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
It's just the same principle as those lime springs that incrust things with lime.
From Old Gorgon Graham More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son by Lorimer, George Horace
Fuses with the evolution of dense white fumes, which incrust the surface of the charcoal.
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