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Emboss   /ɪmbˈɔs/   Listen
verb
Emboss  v. t.  (past & past part. embossed; pres. part. embossing)  
1.
To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. "Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss."
2.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like. "Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death." "Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground."



Emboss  v. t.  To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. (Obs.)



Emboss  v. t.  
1.
To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. (Obs.) "In the Arabian woods embossed."
2.
To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. "A knight her met in mighty arms embossed."



Emboss  v. i.  To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Emboss" Quotes from Famous Books



... ness. V. be prominent &c adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.], bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle. render prominent &c adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase. [become convex] belly out. Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c v.; bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated^, claviform; hummocky^, moutonne^, mammiliform^; papulous^, papilose^; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... thee, tender well my hounds; Brach Merriman, the poor cur, is emboss'd, And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach. Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault? I would not lose the ...
— The Taming of the Shrew • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... flood, most bravely like a Queen, Clad all from head to foot, in gaudy Summer's green, Her mantle richly wrought with sundry flow'rs and weeds; Her moistful temples bound with wreaths of quiv'ring reeds; And on her loins a frock, with many a swelling plait, Emboss'd with well-spread horse, large sheep, and full-fed neat; With villages amongst, oft powthered here and there; And (that the same more like to landscape should appear) With lakes and lesser fords, to mitigate the heat In summer, when the fly ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes



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