Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪmˈbɒs/
emboss (embosses, present participle embossing; 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.
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume (
please specify ), Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662 ↗:
- French: estamper, gaufrer, bosseler
- German: prägen
- Italian: coniare
- Russian: тисни́ть
- Spanish: repujar, abollar
emboss (embosses, present participle embossing; 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, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Crueltie”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗, pages 249–250 ↗:
- And as it commonly happneth, that when the Stagge begins to be emboſt, and findes his ſtrength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeelde and bequeath himſelfe vnto vs that purſue him, with tears ſuing to vs for mercie […].
- (obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, page 98 ↗:
- In the Arabian woods emboſt,
- (obsolete) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
- A knight her met in mighty arms embossed.
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