Emboss
Emboss (?; 115) , transitive verb
[Prefix em- (Latin in) + boss: compare Old French 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.
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 , transitive verb
[Etymology uncertain.]
To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal. [Obsolete]
Emboss , transitive verb
[Compare Pr. & Sp. emboscar, Italian imboscare, French embusquer, and English imbosk.]
1.
To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood. [Obsolete]
In the Arabian woods embossed.
2.
To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
A knight her met in mighty arms embossed.
Emboss , intransitive verb
To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obsolete] — S. Butler