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Emboss   /ɪmbˈɔs/   Listen
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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.)






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"Emboss" Quotes from Famous Books



... cheer I gather from thy smiling, Sweet! The self-same cherub-faces which emboss The Vail, lean inward to ...
— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

... other was represented the course of the moon, and the seven stars; and what days were lucky, what unlucky, with an emboss'd studd to distinguish the one ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter

... Medici, Pitti, and Pazzi, while they ranked with princes at the Courts of France, or Rome, or Naples, were money-lenders, mortgagees and bill-discounters in every great city of Europe. The Palle of the Medici, which emboss the gorgeous ceilings of the Cathedral of Pisa, still swing above the pawnbroker's shop in London. And though great families like the Rothschilds in the most recent days have successfully asserted the aristocracy of wealth acquired by usury, it still remains a surprising fact ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds

... been fled, And every earthly passion dead, His pity to contempt allied, Had rous'd my anger and my pride; But, as it was, I bent my way, Where his secluded mansion lay, Which rose before my eyes at length, A fortress of determin'd strength, And layers of every colour'd moss The lofty turrets did emboss, As tho' the hand of father Time, Prepar'd a sacrifice sublime,— Giving his daily rites away, To aggrandize some future day. Here as I roam'd the walk along, I heard a plaintive broken song; And ere I to the portal drew, An open window caught my view, Where a fair dame appear'd in sight, ...
— Poems • Matilda Betham

... he arm'd from head to heel, In mail and plate of Milan steel; But his strong helm, of mighty cost, 80 Was all with burnish'd gold emboss'd; Amid the plumage of the crest, A falcon hover'd on her nest, With wings outspread, and forward breast; E'en such a falcon, on his shield, 85 Soar'd sable in an azure field: The golden legend bore aright, Who ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott


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