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Definition of Encrusts
1. encrust [v] - See also: encrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encrusts
Literary usage of Encrusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"... and encrusts other bodies. iThe base of the cells is finely tuberculated.)
The be-t marked species (D. reticulata) is found in the chalk of Maastricht. ..."
2. Technical Writing by Thomas Arthur Rickard (1920)
"(49) "The telluride occurs in [lines or encrusts] the interior of the cavity.
... "The telluride encrusts the cavity." (50) "Underlying this decomposed ..."
3. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"Tho ulcération come« on in the form of a crack at the bottom of One of these
folds ; the discharge thnt takes place from it encrusts over the surface, ..."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... very lacunose and polymorphous : sometimes it encrusts other bodies, is
agglomerated into a heap, or spreads in sinuous expansions, striated externally. ..."
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