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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.]

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy. Those frosts that winter brings Which candy every green. Drayson.

process of photography. Abney. -- Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc.

hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow. I have known the statute of an emperor quite hid under a crust of dross. Addison. Below this icy crust of conformity, the waters of infidelity lay dark and deep as ever. Prescott.…

An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys.

Incrusted; covered with, or containing, crust; as, old, crusted port wine.

r "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

To incrust. See Incrust.

That which is formed as a crust; incrustment; incrustation. Disengaging truth from its encrustment of error. I. Taylor.

A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.

To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper.

ive cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

the character of a cell wall, by which it becomes harder. It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]