[ adj ] having a hardened crust as a covering <adj.all>
encrusted \encrusted\ adj. covered with or hardened into a crust.
Syn: crusted. [WordNet 1.5]
Yabaya's possessions included gold needles, a bronze mirror with its enamel handle encrusted with precious stones, and tiny tongs for applying kohl, a dark eye makeup, the paper said.
So it is offering upscale options like gold overlays or encrusted jewels on bronze mummiforms (body-shaped caskets), costing $100,000 and more.
The young gentlewoman known as the Marchese Balbi is decked out entirely in black - but blacks encrusted with gold, trimmed with threads of silver.
He said he washed the victim's dirt and blood encrusted hair and her face as best he could.
Mrs. Howell spends another afternoon sorting through four donated crates of warm purple grapes, most encrusted in soft white mold.
"Queen of Poland, in this historic moment I stand before you at the very sources of my faith," Walesa said before the Black Madonna, the jewel- encrusted icon whose image the Solidarity chief always wears on his lapel.
This is an obvious quality for a business leader, but it may have been in short supply at IBM, with its layers of encrusted bureaucracy.
A state survey on Nov. 16 showed that patient call signals were unanswered, patients were left lying in urine and feces for hours, and equipment was soiled by blood and encrusted material.
Also for jewelry lovers is a $1 million, low-cut bustier encrusted with 2,100 white, yellow and pink diamonds hand-sewn into elastic silk _ an 825-carat top.