המשמעות המילונית של המילה "מכוסה" היא לכסות או לצפות משהו בשכבה חיצונית קשה, עשויה בדרך כלל מחומר קרום או מוקשה. זה יכול גם להתייחס לתהליך של יצירת קרום או ציפוי קשה על משהו לאורך זמן. לדוגמה, "החפצים העתיקים היו עטופים בשכבות של לכלוך וזוהמה."
These phenomena were occasioned by the expansion of the gas, through increase of heat in the atmosphere, and the consequent disruption of the minute particles of ice with which the network had become encrusted during the night.
Silver filigree and black opals, the largest of which was a pommel, encrusted a black elding steel hilt.
After a moment, Rune turned to the leather bag behind him, exposing the hilt of an elding blade encrusted with fine jewels that drew her attention.
The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up.
He leaped to the side as an elephant-headed monster charged at him, horns encrusted with green gore.
Encased Peter took out his penknife and scratched at the encrusted surface of one of the giant iron statues on the beach, trying to see what was underneath.
A cow-sized starfish whirred past, followed by a yellow stingray encrusted with a hundred eyes.
His long fingers were bedecked with black and silver rings whilst his earrings resembled small black talons, encrusted with crystals.
The sea, knowing what was required of her, threw over them her weeds, encircled them with coral, and encrusted them with shells the whole was cemented by two hundred years beneath these almost impervious depths, for a revolution carried away the emperor who wished to make the trial, and only left the documents proving the manufacture of the jars and their descent into the sea.
She slid along the smooth tiles towards the large mirror hanging over an oval sink which was encrusted with golden flower patterns.
