- a variation of encrust.
incrust
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Saracenic pendentives with Cuphic legends incrust the richly painted ceiling of the nave.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
Fuses and gives off dense white fumes, which thickly incrust the charcoal and color the flame blue immediately beyond the assay.
Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
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 William Dean Howells
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 William Chambers
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