ppl. a. [f. ENCRUST v. + -ING2.] That encrusts.

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1766.  Pennant, Zool. (1768), I. Pref. 3. The excellence and number of our springs, whether medicinal or incrusting.

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1856–8.  W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 79. Polypary incrusting, formed of stolons.

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1861.  Dickens, in All Y. Round, IV. 461. I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window’s encrusting dirt.

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1878.  G. Macdonald, Phantastes, v. 81. A kiss cannot reach her through the incrusting alabaster.

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