Definition of Encrusting

1. Verb. (present participle of encrust) ¹

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Definition of Encrusting

1. encrust [v] - See also: encrust

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encrusting

encroach
encroach upon
encroached
encroacher
encroachers
encroaches
encroaching
encroaching(a)
encroachingly
encroachment
encroachments
encrust
encrustation
encrustations
encrusted
encrusting
encrustment
encrustments
encrusts
encrypt
encrypted
encrypter
encrypters
encrypting
encryption
encryptions
encryptor
encryptors
encrypts
encu

Literary usage of Encrusting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"[Shell parasitic encrusting, or arborescent; ... This-is one of the most important types as exhibiting the arborescent and encrusting form of growth. ..."

2. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1885)
"... some plants higher in the scale of life, grow from spores. These produce new plants as seed do, but they are not seed. Seed, FIG. 20.—Encrusting LICHEN. ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The Work of Encrusting Organisms in the Formation of Limestone. By~E. WETHERED. 3. The Action of Waves and Tides on the Movement of Material on the Sea ..."

4. Cellulose, Cellulose Products, and Artificial Rubber: Comprising the by Josef Bersch (1904)
"This transformation is effected by various bodies, known by the general term of encrusting substances, becoming imbedded in the cellulose mass. ..."

5. Outlines of Geology: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered by William Thomas Brande (1817)
"Of the Succession of Strata encrusting the Globe, and of the Stratification of Britain in particular.—Granite, and its component Parts. ..."

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