Incrust

Word INCRUST
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Definitions and meanings of "Incrust"

What do we mean by incrust?

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.

To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of transitive verb

To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. transitive verb

To encrust. verb

To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. verb

Cover or coat with a crust verb

Form a crust or a hard layer verb

Decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) verb

To cover with a hard crust.

To form a crust.

To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.

Derived from the French “incruste” whereby one joins into a group or discussion uninvited. Urban Dictionary

The aftermath you find yourself in after indulging in pure gluttony of greek yogurt consumption. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Incrust

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The word "incrust" in example sentences

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. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

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 (2006)

In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur. ❋ Unknown (1999)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

Most waters contain some impurity which, when the water is evaporated, remains to incrust the surface of the vessel. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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. ❋ Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (1932)

It's just the same principle as those lime springs that incrust things with lime. ❋ Lorimer, George H (1903)

Our gems make bright her crown, incrust her throne: ❋ Unknown (1900)

Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone. ❋ William Harmon Norton (1900)

It was a necessity that Judaism should incrust itself in this manner; without those hard and ossified forms the preservation of its essential elements would have proved impossible. ❋ Julius Wellhausen (1881)

Marble and mosaic, alabaster and malachite, lapis and porphyry, incrust it from pavement to cornice and flash back their polished lights at each other with such a splendour of effect that you seem to stand at the heart of some immense prismatic crystal. ❋ Henry James (1879)

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. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Again, it may hold substances in solution, which are deposited in crystals or incrust the urine, or it may precipitate a material having the appearance of brick-dust, and sometimes semen tinged with blood. ❋ Ray Vaughn Pierce (1877)

Italian literature, and prepared the way for Ariosto's golden cantos, might be compared to one of those wire baskets which children steep in alum water, and incrust with crystals, sparkling, artificial, beautiful with colours not their own. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Saracenic pendentives with Cuphic legends incrust the richly painted ceiling of the nave. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

"True," said Mohi, "they absorb the oil of the smoke, instead of allowing it offensively to incrust." ❋ Herman Melville (1855)

- Did you [see how] [Sally] incrusted herself in their conversation? - [Classic] Sally ❋ StreetSlayer (2017)

Dude eat so much [greek yogurt] yesterday, he was [discovered] on the [sofa] in his very own “Cum-Incrusted-Caccoon” ❋ IvyFayeStarr (2021)

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