Definition of "encrust"

encrust

/ɪŋˈkɹʌst/

verb
third-person singular simple present encrusts, present participle encrusting, simple past and past participle encrusted
1. (transitive) To cover with a hard crust.
  Quotations
  And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard.
  1726, James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768
2. (intransitive) To form a crust.
3. (transitive) To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.