incrust
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Fuses with the evolution of dense white fumes, which incrust the surface of the charcoal.
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.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
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
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.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
