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Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]

A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.

Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.

To adorn with a crest. [R.] Drummond.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.

The act of incriminating; crimination.

Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] Brevint.

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. And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. Thomson.

Incrusted. Bacon.

The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

Incrustation. [R.]

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Ray.

Of or pertaining to incubation, or to the period of incubation.

That which incubates, especially, an apparatus by means of which eggs are hatched by artificial heat.

Serving for incubation.