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 Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
In so many arid forms which States incrust themselves with, once in a century, if so often, a poetic act and record occur. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
First we incrust a beautiful sashimi grade tuna steak in sesame seeds, pan seer it to medium rare perfection and then pair it with our mix of baby organic salad greens and sesame ginger dressing. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
Our gems make bright her crown, incrust her throne. From Wordnik.com. [0 1166. Thefts of the Morning by Edith Matilda Thomas. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference
It's just the same principle as those lime springs that incrust things with lime. From Wordnik.com. [Old Gorgon Graham]
Saracenic pendentives with Cuphic legends incrust the richly painted ceiling of the nave. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Such are popularly known as petrifying springs, although they merely incrust the objects and do not convert them into stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
It can Resize pictures at upload to the size you specify and optionally incrust a watermark signature in all pictures you upload. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Italian Journeys] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference
Gallo-Scottish style everything tends to the perpendicular, not only in the long, narrow shapes of the buildings themselves, and their tall, spiral turrets, but in the many decorations which incrust them. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852] Reference
Italian literature, and prepared the way for Ariosto's golden cantos, might be compared to one of those wire baskets which children steep in alum water, and incrust with crystals, sparkling, artificial, beautiful with colours not their own. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series] Reference
Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
26.7 they consolidate thy yoke: they replace the metallic ornaments: they incrust the marquetry. From Wordnik.com. [Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings] Reference
The gelid incrust, and the veined ore. From Wordnik.com. [Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace] Reference
Save but our army! and let Jove incrust. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1] Reference
= incrustar = to incrust, grow fast. From Wordnik.com. [Novelas Cortas] Reference
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