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Webster 1913 Edition
Emboss
Em-boss′
(?; 115)
, Verb.
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 raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
Botches and blains must all his flesh
emboss
. Milton.
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
Androgeo's death.
embossed
Androgeo's death.
Dryden.
Exhibiting flowers in their natural color
embossed
upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.
Em-boss′
,Verb.
T.
[Etymology uncertain.]
To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
[Obs.]
Em-boss′
,Verb.
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
. Milton.
2.
To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
A knight her met in mighty arms
embossed
. Spenser.
Em-boss′
,Verb.
I.
To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
[Obs.]
S. Butler.
Webster 1828 Edition
Emboss
EMBOSS'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances.2.
To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell.EMBOSS'
,Verb.
T.
EMBOSS'
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
emboss
emboss
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒs
Verb
emboss (third-person singular simple present embosses, present participle embossing, simple past and past participle embossed)
- (transitive) To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
- The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
- (transitive) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
- Dryden
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.
- Sir Walter Scott
- Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground.
- Dryden
Translations
to mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol
Etymology 2
Perhaps from em- + Old French bos, bois (“wood”). Compare imbosk.
Verb
emboss (third-person singular simple present embosses, present participle embossing, simple past and past participle embossed)
- (obsolete) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
- (obsolete) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.11:
- And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost, and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.11:
- (obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
- Milton
- in the Arabian woods embossed
- Milton
- (obsolete) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
- Spenser
- A knight her met in mighty arms embossed.
- Spenser