transitive. To dry up (any sticky daubing) into a hardened crust or bark; to cover or stiffen by this process.

transitive. To cover as with a crust, to encrust.

transitive. To enclose in or encrust with or as with a paste.

To cover with a crust or hardened coating, as of deposited or crystallized matter, rust, scum, etc. = encrust, v. 2.

To fur over, encrust. Obsolete.

transitive. To cover with a scurf or incrustation. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To cover over with a crust or layer. Usually in passive.

transitive. To encrust or cover (a person or thing) thickly with or in a substance. Also with over. Usually in passive.

transitive. To encrust, cake.

To enclose with or as with bark; to encrust.

To cover with a crust or thin coating (e.g. of rust, sedimentary deposits, etc.). Also of scales, shellfish, etc.: To form a crust or hard coating…

transitive. To encrust, to cover with a crust; to crust over.

transitive. To cover over with scurf. In quots. figurative: to cover, coat, or infest noxiously.