Emboss

[Em*boss·]

Emboss means to carve with a design. A silver tray might be embossed with your initials and wedding date. You might give your teacher a plaque with "World's Best Teacher" embossed under their name.

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To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

Verb
raise in a relief; "embossed stationary"

v. t.
To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

v. t.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.

v. t.
To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

v. t.
To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

v. t.
To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

v. i.
To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

Emboss

Em*boss" (?; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embossed (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Embossing.] [Pref. em- (L. in) + boss: cf. OF. embosser to swell in bunches.] 1. To arise 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

Em*boss", v. t. [Etymology uncertain.] To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. [Obs.]

Emboss

Em*boss", v. t. [Cf. Pr. & Sp. emboscar, It. imboscare, F. embusquer, and E. imbosk.] 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

Em*boss", v. i. To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obs.] S. Butler.

To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

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