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▪ I. † emˈboss, n. Obs. rare—1.
[f. emboss v.]
A boss-like projection; a knob.
1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 124 A round emboss of marble.
▪ II. emboss, v.1|ɛmˈbɒs|
Also 4–6 enbos(s, 5 enboce.
[prob. a. OF. *emboce-r (app. not recorded before 1530): see en- and boss n.1]
1. trans. To cause to bulge or swell out, make convex or protuberant; to cover with protuberances. In modern use chiefly transf. from 2 or 3.
αc1460Stans Puer 31 in Babees Bk. (1868) 28 To enboce thy Iowis withe mete. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. Some [bones] are enbossed for to entre. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. (1641) 25/2 When God..Embas't the Valleys and Embost the Hils. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 334 Embossed with fat. 17..Gay Story of Arachne 39 Her trembling hand, embossed with livid veins. 1763Churchill Proph. Famine, Poems I. 117 With boils embossed and overgrown with scurf. 1814Southey Roderick xxi. 18 Its fretted roots Embossed the bank. 1868Kirk Chas. Bold III. v. iii. 413 It is everywhere unequal, embossed with hill-tops.
β1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 13 Her Body is..imboss'd all over with black knobs. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 180 Botches and blaines must all his flesh imboss.
†b. fig. to emboss (out): to inflate (style), render tumid; to give exaggerated prominence to.
1564Brief Exam. *iiij b, Ye embosse out your glorious stiles. 1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 36 It hath pleased M. Harding thus to colour and to embosse out this ancient Father. 1577,1646[see embossed ppl. a.1 3].
†c. intr. To bulge, be convex. Obs. rare.
c1430[see embossing vbl. n.]. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 215 a, If the same be made hollowe imbossing towarde the myddle.
2. spec. To carve or mould in relief; to cause (figures, part of a wrought surface) to stand out, project, or protrude. Also fig. The earliest and the prevailing mod. sense. [So Fr. imbocer (Palsgr.).]
αc1385Chaucer L.G.W., Dido, Of gold the barris vp enbosede [v.r. enbossed]. 1563Homilies ii. Idolatry ii. (1859) 194 Images came into the Church, not now in painted cloths only, but embossed in stone. 1644Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 76 Fleur-de-lis embossed out of the stone. 1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. 1842 II. 322 Such claims..stood embossed, and..forced themselves on the view of common, short-sighted benevolence. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 37 A gold sword-hilt..being actually embossed on the picture. 1885Manch. Exam. 5 June 5/6 Farmer's apparatus..for chasing, glazing, and embossing cloth.
β1612Drayton Poly-olb. v. 75 Fish..in Antique worke most curiously imbost. 1676Boyle in Phil. Trans. XI. 807 The figure of a Star..imbost upon the upper superficies of the Regulus.
b. To adorn with figures or other ornamentation in relief; to represent (a subject) in relief. (Sometimes with reference to embroidery.) Also of the figures, etc.: To stand out as an ornament upon.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xx, An epythaphe..With letters ryche of golde aboue enboced. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge 60 The ten plages of Egypte were well embost. 1601Holland Pliny II. 602 Siluer plate curiously enchased and imbossed. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 299 How come they [Samaritan letters] to adorn and emboss vessels and coins? 1725Pope Odyss. xix. 293 Regal robe with figured gold embost. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. III. lx. 523 The sides were embossed with a variety of picturesque..scenes. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xi. (ed. 3) 89 Calicoes..embossed all over with raised patterns. 1846Prescott Ferd. & Is. I. viii. 346 The rich bronze which embossed its gates. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 490 Men who..had made a fair profit by embossing silver bowls and chargers.
3. To ornament with or as with bosses or studs. Hence, To adorn or decorate sumptuously.
α1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Feb., A girdle of gelt Embost with buegle. 1594J. Dickenson Arisbas (1878) 38 His house..he found not gorgeously embost, yet gaily trimmed. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 29/1 Bright portals of the sky Emboss'd with sparkling stars. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. iii. (1715) 14 The Chariots being richly emboss'd with Gold and other Metals. 1710Lond. Gaz. No. 4672/1 The Harness was embossed with Silver Plates. 1784Cowper Task v. 426 The studs, that thick emboss his iron door. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. xi. (1873) 104 Whose tresses the pearl-drops emboss. 1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) I. 5 Did we not..Emboss our bosoms with the daffodils.
β1578T. Proctor Gorg. Gallery, With buyldings brave, imbost of variant hue. 1784Cowper Task i. 121, I fed on..berries that imboss the bramble.
▪ III. emˈboss, v.2 Obs. exc. arch. in sense 4.
Also 4 embose, enbose, 6–8 imboss.
[ME. embose, perh. f. en- + OF. bos, bois wood; the equivalent OFr. embuiser occurs with sense of ambush. If so, the word is ultimately identical with imbosk v. The development of senses as suggested below is strange, but appears to be in accordance with the existing evidence.]
†1. intr. Of a hunted animal: To take shelter in, plunge into, a wood or thicket. Obs.
c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 352 [The hunters recounted] how the hert had vpon lengthe So moche embosed [v.r. enbosed, enbosid] I not nowe what. 1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 8 Look quickly, lest the Sight of us Should cause the startled Beast t' imboss.
†b. The pa. pple. is used by Milton for imbosked.
1671Milton Samson 1697 Like that self-begotten bird, In the Arabian woods imbost.
†2. To drive (a hunted animal) to extremity. Obs.
(The sense ‘drive to a thicket,’ required by the etymology above suggested, is not clearly evidenced).
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. i. 21 Curres..hauing..The Saluage beast embost in weary chace. 1596Drayton Leg. ii. 379 Like a Deere, before the Hounds imbost. 1601Shakes. All's Well iii. vi. 107 We have almost imbost him, you shall see his fall to night. 1654Gayton Pleasant Notes on Don Quixot 210 As Mules and Horses, who are imboss'd, foame and chafe the more. 1680Otway Caius Marius iv. ii. (1735) 68 Was ever lion thus by dogs emboss'd? 1768Buys Dict. Terms Art, To Emboss (in Hunting), to inclose in a Thicket.
†3. In pass. of a hunted animal: To be exhausted by running; hence, to foam at the mouth (as a result of exhaustion in running). Also transf. of persons: (a) To be exhausted, at the last extremity of fatigue; (b) to foam at the mouth (from rage, etc.). Obs.[The sense ‘to foam at the mouth’ is prob. influenced by emboss v.1, as if an ‘embossed stag’ were one ‘studded’ with bubbles of foam. Cf. imbost v., to foam at the mouth (Cockaine 1590), imbost n., foam (R. Bradley 1727).] 1523Skelton Garl. Laurell 24 Where hartis belluyng, embosyd with distres Ran on the raunge. 1575Turberv. Bk. Venerie 242 When he is foamy at the mouth, we saye that he is embost. 1595Markham Sir R. Grinuill cxxiii, With rage imbost. 1611― Countr. Content i. iv. (1668) 25 A stag..imbost, that is, foaming..about the mouth. 1611Cotgr., Malmené..imbossed, or almost spent, as a Deere by hard pursuit. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. ii. 191 As a stag embossed takes the soyle. 1651Davenant Gondibert ii. xlix, He [the stag] is imbos'd, and weary'd to a Bay. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 485 The Huntsman knows him by a thousand Marks, Black, and Imbost.
fig.1592Warner Albion's Eng. vii. xxxvi. (1612) 175 My chased Heart imboste and almost spent. 1624Quarles Job Poems (1717) 227 My spirit's faint..my soul's imbost.
4. trans. To cover with foam (the mouth, the body of an animal). arch.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. vi. 120 By furie chaunged into an horrible figure, his mouthe foule and imbosed. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. vii, Embossed with foam, and dark with soil, The labouring stag strained full in view. 1829Cunningham Magic Bridle, Anniv. 148 He saw a wild steed..White foam his flanks embossing.
▪ IV. † emˈboss, v.3 Obs.
[app. first in Spenser; perh. f. en- + boss n.3 The Sp. embozarse to envelop oneself in a cloak, has also been suggested. Some of the quots. might belong to emboss v.1 in sense ‘decorate’.]
trans. To cover, encase (in armour); to plunge (a weapon) in an enemy's body. Also fig. in pass. To be ‘wrapped’ (in ease).
1590–6Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 24 A knight her mett in mighty armes embost. Ibid. i. xi. 20 The knight his thrillant speare again assayd In his bras-plated body to embosse. Ibid. iii. i. 64 None of them rashly durst..in so glorious spoyle themselves embosse. Ibid. vi. iv. 40 Vowing, that never he..would lig in ease embost. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xv. (1651) 133 A souldier embossed all in gold [transl. L. præcingitur auro].
▪ V. † emˈboss v.4 Obs.—0
[ad. Fr. embosser to attach a ‘spring’ to a cable, f. en- (see en-) + bosse knot at the end of a rope.]
(See quot. and etymology: evidence of Eng. use is wanting.)
1768Buys Dict. Terms Art, To Emboss a Cable (sea Term.) |