increst 
increstt(in-l<rost').''.'- [< <"- 2 + crest.'] Tocrest. 
Two foaming billows flow'd upon her breast, 
Which ilid their top with coral red increst. 
Drummmd, Sonnets, I. IS. 
incriminate (in-krim'i-nat), r. t.; pret. and pp. 
incriiiiiiialftl, ppr. incriminating. [< ML. i- 
criminatiix, pp. of incriminare (> It. incriminun 
= Sp. Pg. iiti-riiuhiiir = Pr. encriminar = F. '- 
rrimiiirr), accuse of crime, < L. ire, on, + o ///- 
wire, accuse of crime: see criminate.'] 1. To 
charge with a crime ; accuse; criminate. 
In cases in which the clerk . . . was accused, the cler- 
ical Immunity from trial by the secular Judge was free- 
ly recognised. If the ordinary claimed the incriminated 
clerk, the secular court surrendered him for ecclesiastical 
trial. Stuabi, Const. Hist., t 899. 
The evidence, it is said, does not incriminate the higher 
members of the corporation as individuals, although it 
shows that they assented to a louse general uppl icati <n of 
the city's funds. New York Times, March 2, 1887. 
2. To make a subject of accusation; charge as 
a crime. [Bare.] 
Fifteen years had passed since the incriminated acts 
were committed. Lecky, Eng. In 18th Cent, xili. 
Syn. 1. Accuse, Charge, Indict, etc. See accuse. 
incriminatory (in-krim'i-na-to-ri), a. [X incrim- 
inate + -ory.] Tending to criminate; accusa- 
tory. Atlit'inriini. 
incroacht, incroachmentt, etc. Obsolete forms 
of encroach, etc. 
incroyable (F. pron. an-krwo-ya'bl), n. [F., 
lit. incredible : see incredible.] In France, dur- 
ing the time of the Directory (about 1795-9), 
a man or woman who affected a grotesque and 
extreme foppishness in dress. 
The republican [French] young man of fashion, thein- 
cnyable. Westminster Rev., CXXVIII. 947. 
incruciatedt (in-krO'shi-a-ted), a. [< in- 3 + 
cruciateil.] Untormented; free from torture. 
His ignorance gave him ... a kind of Innocence, where- 
by he [(Edipus) might have passed away his life incrnci- 
a/fd, without the sense of so fatal misfortunes. 
Feltham, Resolves, II. 31. 
incruentalt (in-krij-en'tal), a. [< L. incruentus, 
not made bloody, < in-priv. + cruentus, bloody, 
< cruor, blood.] Not bloody ; not accompanied 
with blood. 
He musters out as many places as he can find that 
make any mention of liturgy, oblation, holy victim, in- 
cruental sacrifice. 
Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor, p. 408. 
incrust, encrust (in-, en-krust'), v. t. [< OF. 
encrouster, F. encroiiter, also incruster = Sp. 
Pg. incriistar = It. incrostare, < L. incrustare, 
cover with a rind or crust, < in, on, + crusta, 
crust: see crust.] 1. To cover with a crust; 
form a crust or coating on the surface of; coat; 
overlay : as. an ancient coin incrusted with rust. 
In the Persian Gulf a ship had her copper bottom en- 
crurtfd In the course of twenty months with a layer of 
coral two feet in thickness. Danrin, Coral Reefs, p. 106. 
All the wonderful acuteness and dialectics of the Greek 
mind were employed for centuries in incrusting the Chris- 
tian faith with the subtile and curious conceits of the 
Oriental systems. still. , Stud. Med. Hist, p. 266. 
As Christianity spread over the Roman world, it became 
encrusted with pagan notions and observances. 
J. Piste, Idea of God, p. 79. 
2. In decorative art, to cover with a different 
and generally more precious material in plates 
or pieces of appreciable thickness, requiring 
to be held in place by cramps, hooks, cement, 
or other appliances. 
The principal [chapels of St Peter's] are four, incrusted 
with most precious marbles and stones of various colours. 
Evelyn, Diary, Home, Nov. 19, 1644. 
3. To apply or inlay, as mosaic, slabs of pre- 
cious marbles, enameled tiles, or the like, so 
as to form a decoration or covering. 
The form of the cross, the domes, the incrusted decora- 
tion [of St. Mark's), were all borrowed from the East, and 
all had their prototypes in Byzantine buildings. 
C. E. Norton, Church-building In Middle Ages, p. 54. 
In good [mosaic] work not a trace [of cement] should 
appear between the riicrutted stones and the marble, not 
even when seen through a magnifying glass. 
ISiniti;'*,,!. Indian Arts, II. 49. 
Incrusted enamel. See enamel. Incrusted work, 
in metal, work the surface of which is decorated by attach- 
ing to it ornaments ulso in metal, as silver on copper, 
copper on brass, etc. In some instances one metal is in- 
enisled on another, as tin on brass, and then cut through 
in figured patterns. A modern mechanical method con- 
sists in painting the design on the metal surface in water- 
color, then varnishing the unpuinted parts, and placing 
the object inn dilute hath of nitrlcacid. After the painted 
parts are liitten in by the aei<l, the ohjeet is elertroplftted, 
the deposit funning on the unvarnished parts. On remov- 
ing the varnish, the plated parts appear as incrusted. 
Incrustata (in-krus-tii'tjn, . /</. [XL., neut. 
pi. of L. incriixtiitHx. iiirrusliitr : sec incnistiiti , 
a.] A division of cvclostomatous polyzoans: 
same as Jnarticiilatu, L': opposed to 
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incrustate (in-krus'tat), v. t. [< L. incrustatus, 
pp. of iiicruntare, incrust: see incrust.] To in- 
crust; form an incrustation on. [Kare.] 
If It was covered with rand, It must have been incruslated 
mud. (Mdrmith, Citizen of the World, Ixxxix. 
M asses of calcareous tufa which have been formed upon 
the borders of incrustating springs. 
J. Croll, Climate and Cosmology, p. 187. 
incrustate (in-krus'tat), a. [< L. incrustatus, 
pp.: see the verb.] 1. Incrusted. 
The finer part of the wood will be turned Into air, and 
the grosser stick baked and incrustate upon the sides of 
the vessel. Bacon, Nat. Hist 
2. In hot. : (a) Coated, as with earthy matter. 
(6) Growing so firmlj to the pericarp as to ap- 
pear to have but one integument : said of seeds. 
3. Incrusting; forming a crust, as a poly- 
zoan or a lichen. 
incrustation (in-krus-ta'shon), n. [Also rarely 
a* mutation ; = F. incrustation = Sp. incrusta- 
tion = Pg. incrustafSo, < LL. incrustatio(ti-), < L. 
incrustare, incrust: see incrust.] 1. The act of 
incrusting ; the act of covering or lining with 
any foreign substance ; the state of being in- 
crusted. 
It [St Mark's] Is the purest example In Italy of the great 
school of architecture in which the ruling principle Is the 
incrustation of brick with more precious materials. 
Rustin, Stones of Venice, II. iv. 24. 
2. A crust or coat of anything on the surface 
of a body ; a covering, coating, or scale, as of 
mineral substances deposited by a spring or 
stream, or by the water in a steam-boiler; an 
efflorescence, as of salt or soda on the surface 
of the ground. 
The application of hydrochloric acid removed the sta- 
lactite encrustation by which the letters had hitherto been 
obscured. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 285. 
The country at this point Is Inexpressibly dreary and 
volcanic-looking, the salt incrustations lying thick upon 
the earth. O' 'Donovan, Merv, 1. 
A merely sceptical age will create nothing ; but an age 
of unlnquiring credulity will hand down to later genera- 
tions Us most sacred truths disfigured and imperilled by 
a thick incrustation of error. 
B. y. Oxenham, Short Studies, p. 266. 
3. An inlaying of anything, as a plaque, tile, 
lacquer, veneer, mosaic, or the like, into or upon 
the surface, as of a cabinet, mantelpiece, etc. 
Had the whole church been finished as It was designed, It 
would have presented one splendid though bizarre effect 
of inrrnrtati"ii. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 261. 
4. An incrusted or inlaid object or substance. 
The material of the structure was brick, but the whole 
surface of the building [St Mark's], within and without, 
was to be covered with precious incrustation* of mosaic 
or of marble. 
C. E. Norton, church-building In Middle Ages, p. 54. 
The doorways are a labyrinth of Intricate designs, in 
which the utmost elegance of form is made more beautiful 
by incruxtiifioii* of precious agates and Alexandrine glass- 
work. J. A, Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 102. 
Cameo Incrustation. See cameo. 
incrustiye (in-krus'tiv), a. [< incrust + -ire.] 
Pertaining to a crust, or to the formation of a 
crust. 
incrustment (in-krust'ment), n. [= It. incros- 
tamento; as incrust + -met.] That which is 
formed as a crust ; incrustation ; hence, any 
foreign matter with which something is over- 
laid or surrounded. Also encrustment. 
The work of disengaging truth from Its encrustment of 
error. Is. Taylor. 
incubate (in'ku-bat), v. ; pret. and pp. incubat- 
"I. ppr. incubating. [< L. incubatus, pp. of in- 
cubare (> Sp. encobar, incubar = Pg. incubar), lie 
in or upon, < in, in, on, + cubare, lie.] I. trans. 
To sit upon for the purpose of hatching; hatch 
out, or produce by hatching: often used figura- 
tively: as, to incubate eggs; to incubate a book 
or a project. 
Still fewer [fishes] nidificate and incubate their ova. 
Oven, Comp. Anat, viii. 
H. intrans. 1. To sit, as on eggs, for the 
purpose of hatching; brood: as, a bird that 
incubates for two weeks. 2. In pathol., to go 
through the stage or process or incubation. 
See incubation, 2. 
incubation (in-ku-ba'shon), n. [= F. incuba- 
limi = Sp. incubdcion = Pg. incubacSo = It. in- 
cubazione, < L. incnbatio(n-), < incubare, lie in 
or upon: see incubate.] 1. The act of sitting, 
as on eggs, for the purpose of hatching; brood- 
in;;; hatching: often used figuratively, as of 
writings, schemes, etc. 
First, the Swiss Republicks grew under the guardian- 
ship of the French monarch. The Dutch Republicks were 
hatched and cherished under the same incubation. 
Burke, A Regicide 1'. - ii 
Incubation Is performed, as is well known, by the fe- 
male of nearly all Birds. i'ncyc. Brit., III. 77r>. 
incubiture 
2. In pathol., the unnoticed or unknown pro- 
cesses or changes which occur in the interval 
between the exposure to an infectious disease 
and the development of its first symptoms. 
This [whooping-cough] has generally one week, or even 
two, of incubation before the first febrile and catarrhal 
symptoms appear. Quoin, Med. Diet 
3. A lying in or within ; specifically, the act of 
sleeping in a temple for thepurpose of obtaining 
revelations by dreams, or in the hope of being 
visited by the god and relieved of some ailment, 
as in the Greek sanctuaries of ^Esculapius. 
This place was celebrated for the worship of .*culaplus, 
In whose temple incubation, L e. Bleeping for oracular 
dreams, was practised, r.'. /.'. Tylor, Prim. Culture, II. 111. 
A type of the usual method, which was called incubation 
or cyKoipiprtc, Is the oracle of Amphiarausnear Oropus, be- 
side the spring where the hero had risen from the earth to 
become a god. The Inquirer, after abstaining from wine 
for three days and from all food for twenty-four hours, 
slept In the temple on the skin of a ram which he had sac- 
rificed. Encyc. Brit., XVIL 808. 
Artificial incubation, the batching of eggs by artificial 
warmth, as practised from antiquity In Egypt and China. 
Of late years this industry has become general In Europe 
and America. Period of Incubation, (a) In ornith., 
the length of time required to hat eh eggs, or during which 
a bird incubates them. (6) In pntliot., the period that 
elapses between the introduction of the morbific principle 
and the outbreak of the disease. 
incubative (in'ku-ba-tiv), a. [< incubate + -ive. ] 
Of or pertaining to incubation or the period of 
incubation; of the nature of incubation; in 
pathol., relating to the period during which a 
disease is supposed to be hatching in the system 
before manifesting itself. 
The germs of all the incubative diseases are reproduced 
in the bodies of the sick. (Juain, Med. Diet 
incubator (in'ku-ba-tor),n. [<LL.inc6ator,one 
who lies in a place, < L. incubare, lie in or upon, 
incubate : see incubate.] One who or that which 
incubates, as a bird. Specifically (a) A bird that 
sits upon or shows a disposition to sit upon eggs. (6) A 
machine for the artificial Incubation of eggs. W hlle many 
different Incubators are in use, they are essentially alike 
fncubator. 
A A. hot-air tank ; R P, tray for holding pans of water ; C. C. cm. 
trays ; A D. ventilators ; J:. automatic regulator ; F. rod connecting 
thermostat with regulator; C,, lamp : /Y. thermostat ; /.thermometer. 
in principle, and comprise a case containing one or more 
drawers or trays for holding the eggs, some form of hot- 
water or hot-air apparatus (usually a lamp for heating), 
and, in the most practical forms, a thermostat of some 
kind for regulating the temperature, besides ventilators, 
appliances for saturating the ncated air in the Interior with 
moisture, etc. Some incubators are also fitted with appli- 
ances for turning the eggs without opening the machine. 
On the [ostrich] "farm," the egg which the birds them- 
selves cannot cover may be hatched artificially In an in- 
cubator. Stand. Sat. UisL, IV. 37. 
(c) A suitable appliance for the artificial development of 
germs In the cultivation of micro-organisms. 
Artificial cultivations of micro-organisms in suitable 
nourishing media in the incubator. 
E. Ktein, Micro-organisms and Disease, p. 9. 
incubatory (in-ku'ba-to-ri), a. [< iiii'iiiinti' + 
-ory.] Pertaining to incubation ; employed in 
the process of incubation. See ovicyst. 
The ascidioiooids develop incubatory pouches. 
Sncyc. Brit., XXIII. 617. 
incubet (in-kub'), v. t. [< in-3 + cube.] To 
make a cube of; place or fix as if forming part 
of a cube. 
So that Prelaty . . . must be fain to inglobe or incubr 
herself among the Presbyters. 
Milton, Church-Government, L 6. 
incubi. . Latin plural of incubus. 
in-CUbiC (in'ku-bik), . [< in 1 + cubic.] In 
ma tli., an inscribed cubic, 
incubituret (in-ku'bi-tur), M. [< L. incubitus, 
pp. of incubare, lie upon: see incubate.] 1. The 
act of incubating ; incubation. 
The ineutiture of the female [bird] on the back of the 
male. .Ef(i, Knowledge of Divine Things, p. 153. 
2. The state of being covered, as in incuba- 
tion ; a covering. 
