incrust
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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
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
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
Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone.
From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton
But in the Gallo-Scottish style everything tends to the perpendicular, not only in the long, narrow shapes of the buildings themselves, and their tall, spiral turrets, but in the many decorations which incrust them.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by William Chambers
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