incrust
Britishverb
Other Word Forms
- incrustant noun
- incrustation noun
Example Sentences
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But in the Gallo-Scottish style everything tends to the perpendicular, not only in the long, narrow shapes of the buildings themselves, and their tall, spiral turrets, but in the many decorations which incrust them.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by Chambers, William
Saracenic pendentives with Cuphic legends incrust the richly painted ceiling of the nave.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Fuses and gives off dense white fumes, which thickly incrust the charcoal and color the flame blue immediately beyond the assay.
The water climbs above the altar-tops, sapping, in its recession, the cement of the fine marbles which incrust the columns, so that about their bases the pieces have to be continually renewed.
From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean
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
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