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Definition of Encrusted
1. Adjective. Having a hardened crust as a covering.
Definition of Encrusted
1. Verb. (past of encrust) ¹
2. Adjective. Having an incrustation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encrusted
1. encrust [v] - See also: encrust
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encrusted
Literary usage of Encrusted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geology of the Isle of Man by George William Lamplugh, William Whitehead Watts (1903)
"6 Boring, with its far-transported pebbles encrusted with polyzoa and ...
Glaciated Carboniferous Limestone Boulder encrusted with shelly sand and ..."
2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1908)
"When first seen by me the eruption existed upon the left shoulder (one small
encrusted patch being upon the right shoulder only), the left side of the chest ..."
3. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1834)
"Their body is long and slender; their scales, as it were encrusted in a fat and
thick skin, are not clearly visible until they are dried up. ..."
4. An Historical and Statistical Account of Nova-Scotia by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1829)
"'-now becomes encrusted in March, by alternate thaws and frosts; the Indians go
out in quest of them. By the aid of rackets or snow shoes, they are enabled ..."
5. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"... of limestone of the shape of a shell, and, when broken, a shell usually of
the genus Melania appears, that has been encrusted with carbonate of lime. ..."
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