| 释义 |
encrusting, incrusting, ppl. a.|ɛn-, ɪnˈkrʌstɪŋ|
[f. encrust v. + -ing2.]
That encrusts.
a1691Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 140, I visited the incrusting spring..and could not find anything incrusted within 26 yards of the rise of it. 1766Pennant Zool. (1768) I. Pref. 3 The excellence and number of our springs, whether medicinal or incrusting. 1856–8W. Clark Van der Hoeven's Zool. I. 79 Polypary incrusting, formed of stolons. 1861Dickens in All Y. Round IV. 461, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window's encrusting dirt. 1878G. Macdonald Phantastes v. 81 A kiss cannot reach her through the incrusting alabaster. |