单词 | overcrust |
释义 | overcrustv. transitive. To cover over with a crust or layer. Usually in passive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > encrust barken1513 crust1545 impaste1548 incrustate1570 befur1581 scurf1599 overcrust1603 cake1609 imbake1632 bark1633 encrusta1691 becrust1830 accrust1842 overscurf1881 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxvii. 444 Keeping our bodies all over-crusted [Fr. encroustez], and our pores stopt with grease and filth. a1618 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) i. ii. 35 His bright beams aspect With trembling lustre it doth far reflect Against th'high feeling of the lightsom Hall, With stately Fret-work ouer-crusted all. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 88 The Church of S. Ambrosio..is neatly overcrusted with marble. 1867 Macmillan's Mag. Jan. 248/1 A huge temple..has left a series of ruins to form a kind of backbone to half the modern hovel-built village, much as the skeleton of an elephant might be over-crusted with anthills. 1889 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 105/2 We are as those who gaze at a beautiful landscape through a window of imperfect glass, soiled and overcrusted with age. 1907 G. Murray Rise of Greek Epic 30 Ancient bronze axes overcrusted with a stalactite growth of stone, testifying to a worship forgotten and uncomprehended. 1979 16th Cent. Jrnl. 10 122 Like a cathedral overcrusted with demonic and angelic ornament, Stone's new structure will attract iconoclasts armed with more specialized knowledge. Derivatives ˌoverˈcrusted adj. ΚΠ 1902 W. de la Mare Songs of Childhood 75 The night's o'ercrusted snows. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > a crust or incrustation rove1510 crust?1529 scurfa1555 scruff1591 bark1601 crustiness1608 overcrusting1670 incrustation1671 illinition1794 encrustment1845 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) i. 157 The roof is to [be] Vaulted all ouer with an ouercrusting of Lapis Lazuli. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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