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/ˌɪnkrəstˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Incrustation n.

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

A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.

(Arch.) A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.

(Fine Arts) Anything inlaid or imbedded.

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... carriages to enjoy a more perfect view. Tom and Charley took it into their heads to attempt walking across some of the steps. Tom ran lightly over them; but Chaffey, while following in his wake, being twice as heavy, broke through the incrustation, and in he soused. He quickly managed, however, to scramble out again, though not until he was wet through ...

— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston

... tracheotomy; (d) a badly fitting cannula; (e) war injuries; (f) attempted suicide; (g) attempted homicide; (h) neglect of cleanliness and care of either intubation tubes or tracheotomic cannulae allowing incrustation and roughening which traumatize the tissues at each movement of the ever-moving larynx ...

— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson

... me are of greater length, but not so massive as the other two. They are also more compressed in their curvature than the others, and so the tip to tip measurement is less. The skull appears to be that of a very old animal; the horns are quite joined at the base, and from the incrustation on the bones I should say it had been picked up, and was not a shikar trophy. Anyhow ...

— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon • Robert A. Sterndale

... convenience, and one of these, a very beautiful thing, which he drew with his own hand, is in our book. Thinking that he had discovered the true method of painting in oils on walls, Sebastiano covered the rough-cast of that chapel with an incrustation which seemed to him likely to be suitable for this purpose; and the whole of that part in which is Christ being scourged at the Column he executed in oils on the wall. Nor must I omit to tell that many believe not only that ...

— Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi • Giorgio Vasari

... saloons. Stretch carpets over the costly mosaic pavements and even over the simple opus signinum (a mixture of lime and crushed brick) which covered the floor of the unpretending chambers with a solid incrustation. Above all, replace the ceilings and the roofs, and then the doors and draperies; in fine, revive upon all these walls—the humblest as well as the most splendid—the bright and vivid pictures now effaced. What light, and what ...

— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier

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