Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

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. — 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 embossed Androgeo's death. — Dryden
Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. — Sir W. Scott

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. — Milton
2.
To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. — Spenser

Emboss , intransitive verb

To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods. [Obsolete] — S. Butler