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encrust

, incrust (in-krŭst′) [L. incrustare, to cover with a rind or crust]

To coat with a crust of debris, e.g., of lipids, proteins, salts, slime, or sugars.

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(3,4) Especially in the presence of encrusted intrarenal segment of DJS, the use of PCNL and open procedures has been frequently reported.

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It will be encrusted with diamonds - and will cost up to pounds 60,000.

Gold and diamond shoes - yours for just pounds 100,000

Fashioned in solid sterling silver, the whistle is encrusted with pounds 1200 worth of gems.

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The second watch, a gold and diamond encrusted Rolex, is valued at pounds 35,000.

Jewellery 'too rare to sell on'

Crabcakes with Creole remoulade sauce Sashimi-sesame encrusted yellowfin tuna with wasabi

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Scott, 37, had secretly proposed to Barbara on her birthday and gave her a platinum engagement ring encrusted with five large diamonds.

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But externally, it is 'encrusted' - to use another Ruskinian term - with white masonry and dark grey/green courses, joined with stainless-steel bosses, the equivalent of the visible fastenings used in the cladding of Italian buildings, which Ruskin called 'confessed rivets'.

Architecture, memory and metaphor

Summary: DUBAI - Pure Gold Jewellers has launched Pure Silver, an eclectic collection of trendy silver jewellery encrusted with diamonds available in time for the Dubai Shopping Festival celebrations.

Pure Gold launches Pure Silver

SPARKLING Singer dazzles in a leotard encrusted with gems RICH MOVER Cheryl performing her pounds 6,285-a-minute show

pounds 220k for 35min gig

References unite figures as diverse as da Vinci and de Kooning; his paint handling varies from the thin to the encrusted, with images left suggestively inchoate or wrenched away from their sources.

Keith Mayerson: Derek Eller Gallery

A BRIGHT pink car encrusted with diamonds and worth more than $1m could only be the creation of Merthyr Tydfil fashion designer Julien MacDonald.

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On the street, the white stone box within the more heavily encrusted surroundings already signals the presence of a contemporary wall.