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Definition of Incrusts
1. incrust [v] - See also: incrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incrusts
Literary usage of Incrusts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush, Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"... first observed by Dr. Hagemann <to whom the author is inde for his acquaintance
with it), has much of the aspect of chalcedony ; it incrusts cryolite ..."
2. The Parochial History and Antiquities of Stockton-upon-Tees: Including an by John Brewster (1829)
">r ^ f T« r incrusts shells, stones, and the roots of large Fuci, and forms masses
from three to twelve inches in length. The Polypi are reddish or scarlet. ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"In our wisest moments we are secreting a matter, which, like the lime of the
shell-fish, incrusts us quite over, and well for us if, like it, ..."
4. Bulletin by Kentucky Geological Survey (1907)
"Here the product occurs through red-brown clay, in cavities one to three inches
in diameter, which it incrusts and partly fills, ..."
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