Word Meanings - INCRUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. (more info) 1. 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

Additional info about word: INCRUST

To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. (more info) 1. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCRUST)

• Smear
• Daub
• plaster
• spatter
• tarnish
• besmear
• coat
• begrime
• varnish
• incrust

Related words: (words related to INCRUST)

• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• INCRUSTATION
  A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• BESMEARER
  One that besmears.
• BEGRIME
  To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in. Books falling to pieces and begrimed with dust. Macaulay.
• SPATTER-DOCK
  The common yellow water lily .
• SMEARCASE
  Cottage cheese.
• SMEAR
  akin to D. smeren, OHG. smirwen, G. schmieren, Icel. smyrja to 1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil. "Smear the sleepy grooms with blood." Shak. 2. To soil in any way;
• VARNISHER
  1. One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish. 2. One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance. Pope.
• PLASTERLY
  Resembling plaster of Paris. "Out of gypseous or plasterly ground." Fuller.
• INCRUST
  To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object. (more info) 1. 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
• PLASTERING
  1. Same as Plaster, n., 2. 2. The act or process of overlaying with plaster. 3. A covering of plaster; plasterwork.
• TARNISH
  To soil, or change the appearance of, especially by an alternation induced by the air, or by dust, or the like; to diminish, dull, or destroy the luster of; to sully; as, to tarnish a metal; to tarnish gilding; to tarnish the purity of
• VARNISHING
  The act of laying on varnish; also, materials for varnish.
• PLASTERWORK
  Plastering used to finish architectural constructions, exterior or interior, especially that used for the lining of rooms. Ordinarly, mortar is used for the greater part of the work, and pure plaster of Paris for the moldings and ornaments.
• BEGRIMER
  One who, or that which, begrimes.
• VARNISH
  vernir to varnish, fr. LL. vitrinire to glaze, from LL. 1. A viscid liquid, consisting of a solution of resinous matter in an oil or a volatile liquid, laid on work with a brush, or otherwise. When applied the varnish soon dries, either
• INCRUSTMENT
  Incrustation.
• PLASTERER
  1. One who applies plaster or mortar. "Thy father was a plasterer." Shak. 2. One who makes plaster casts. "The plasterer doth make his figures by addition." Sir H. Wotton.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• SHINPLASTER
  Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.
• ASMEAR
  Smeared over. Dickens.
• BESPATTER
  1. To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains. 2. To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.
• COURT-PLASTER
  Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.