incrustation

Certainly the lime incrustation preserved everything, but only after it had been destroyed by time.

But above the ear was a tiny hole with an incrustation of dried blood round it.

It occurs as black incrustations, dark to pale-brown in thin section.

The mineral formed as an incrustation of other minerals by weathering.

He also had gold incrustations in his gun.

The pottery is often decorated with paintings, tin bands or white incrustation.

I also noted a rusty-looking incrustation at the muzzle end of the barrel.

It is supposed to be due to an incrustation of lignin.

The mussels are essentially clean, even if there are incrustations on the shells.

This pathway ran up hill, across another open space covered with white incrustation, and plunged into a canebrake again.

She uses this faint incrustation with great skill.

Thus England rids herself of those incrustations which have been the ruin of old states.

The sacristy contains oil paintings and furniture with incrustations.

The most common occurrence is as an incrustation on furnace walls in which ores are roasted.

The dock's former incrustation had become more advanced, a crystalline shell over the initial weld.

Liverworts grow chiefly in association with mosses, sometimes forming black incrustations.

And along the margin where the water sometimes broke was a thick incrustation of salt - pink under the lurid sky.

The calcareous incrustations in these caves were compared with Gothic fretwork.

The mid 19th century saw the transition from incrustation to painting of Distaff.

Slowly his sight improved as he blinked sandy incrustations from his lashes.

At the beginning his inquiry assumed rather prosaic forms: he became interested in how to remove incrustations from boilers.

His artwork combines the technique of the dinandery with hard stone incrustations in metal.

Their calcareous waters deposit a sintery incrustation on surrounding objects.

In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of "sulfides" or Cameo Incrustations.