- a variation of encrust.
incrust
Britishverb
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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 George Gilfillan
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 George Horace Lorimer
"True," said Mohi, "they absorb the oil of the smoke, instead of allowing it offensively to incrust."
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
The waters which rise from springs passing through marl or limestone are replete with calcareous earth, and when thrown over morasses they deposit this earth and incrust or consolidate the morass.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
Fuses with the evolution of dense white fumes, which incrust the surface of the charcoal.
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