Definition of "encrusting" [encrusting]

• Present participle of encrust. (verb)

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• "But as Audrey passes the Green Chapel with its rotten slate and brilliant cobweb-encrusting of moss, she pauses, listens intently, and only struggles with herself for a moment before she pushes the gate open."
• "I looked over and watching the saliva encrusting in the corner of Larry's mouth, my heart sank."
• "When nostrils started freezing shut and the air cut as we inhaled, and eyelashes froze our eyes shut, then we would reluctantly pull these things over our faces, dealing with the ice encrusting around the mouth hole every time we exhaled."