| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems).[Wordnet]
2. Cover or coat with a crust.[Wordnet] 3. Form a crust or a hard layer.[Wordnet] 4. To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.[Websters] 5. To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.[Websters] 6. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: incrusting, incrusted, incrusts, incruster, incrusters, incrustingly and incrustedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "INCRUST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
| Note: Incrust \In*crust"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Incrusted; present participle verb or noun Incrusting.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INCRUST
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To cover with a crust or with a hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of any substance; as iron incrusted with oxyd or rust; a vessel incrusted with salt.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] To encrust. (references) | ||
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