encrustment

[Eng. encrust; -ment.] 1. The act of incrusting, or covering with a crust. 2. A crust, an incrustation; any foreign matter with which any body or matter is surrounded. ěn-cum-běr, *en-com-bren, *en-cum-bren, v. t. [Fr. encombrer.] [CUMBER.] [Written also INCUMBER (q.v.).] 1. To clog, to load, to impede or embarra the movement of by any weight, load, or burden. "It was still usual for men who enjoyed health and vigor, and who were not encumbered by much baggage, to perform long journeys on horseback." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. iii. *2. To entangle, to embarra . "And thrice in vain he shook his wing, Encumbered in the silken string." *3. To puzzle, to perplex. Prior: Love Disarmed. "Of his robe to deuise I drede encombred for to be." Romaunt of the Rose. *4. To hara , to annoy, to trouble. "With diuerse other, wherewith I will not encombre the reader."-Gardner: Explic. of Transubstantiation , fo. 97. 5. To load or weigh down with debt; as, to encum ber an estate. For the difference between to encumber and to clog , see CLOG. *ěn-cum-běr, *en-cum-bre, *en-cum-bir, s. [ENCUMBER, v.] Trouble, difficulty. *ěn-cum-ber-er, s. [Eng. encumber; -er.] One who or that which encumbers. en-cum-ber-ing, *en-cum-ber-yng, pr. par., a. & 8. [ENCUMBER, v.] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: An encumbrance, trouble, or difficulty. *en-cum-ber-Ing-lý, adv . [Eng.encumbering; -ly .] In a manner to encumber or impede; so as to encumber.