† embossn.

Etymology: < emboss v.¹

Obsolete. rare.

A boss-like projection; a knob.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part

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popple1635

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emboss1644

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tuber1888

1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 124 A round emboss of marble.

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embossv.¹

Brit.

/ɪmˈbɒs/,

/ɛmˈbɒs/, U.S.

/əmˈbɔs/,

/ɛmˈbɔs/,

/əmˈbɑs/,

/ɛmˈbɑs/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s enbos(s, Middle English enboce.

Etymology: probably < Old French *emboce-r (apparently not recorded before 1530): see en- prefix¹ and boss n.¹

a. transitive. To cause to bulge or swell out, make convex or protuberant; to cover with protuberances. In modern use chiefly transferred from 2 or 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (transitive)] > distend > swell

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puffc1460

embossc1475

extend1481

heave1573

ball1593

tympanize1593

tumefy1597

hove1601

bladder1610

buzzlea1634

burly1635

inflatea1705

bumfle1832

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)]

bossc1380

embossc1475

bag1582

belly1609

womb?1623

bumpa1680

protuberate1778

bilge1808

hump1840

bulge1865

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)] > cover with protuberances

embossc1475

α.

c1475 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Harl. 2251) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 28 To enboce thy Iowis withe mete.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Dij^v Some [bones] are enbossed for to entre.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 92 When God..Embast the Valleys, and embost the Hills.

1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 334 Embossed with fat.

1712 J. Gay Arachne in A. Pope Misc. Poems 83 Her trembling Hand, emboss'd with livid Veins.

1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 21 With boils embossed, and overgrown with scurf.

1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 18 Its fretted roots Embossed the bank.

1868 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold III. v. iii. 413 It is everywhere unequal, embossed with hill-tops.

β. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 13 Her Body is..imboss'd all over with black knobs.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 180 Botches and blaines must all his flesh imboss.

†b. figurative. to emboss (out): to inflate (style), render tumid; to give exaggerated prominence to.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > make bombastic

to emboss1564

bombast1573

starch1656

tumefy1677

1564 Briefe Exam. *iiij b Ye embosse out your glorious stiles.

1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare i. 48 It hath pleased M. Hardinge thus to coloure, and to embosse out this aunciente Father.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 94/2 Thinking by their embossed speech to tickle the eares and harts of the yoong princes.

1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 39 Embossed Language tickles the eares.

†c. intransitive. To bulge, be convex. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)]

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belly1627

heave1629

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bud1684

pod1806

bilge1849–52

sag1853

knucklec1862

poocha1903

c1430 [implied in: J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xx. 36 If their brestes up to high them dresse, They can..thenbosing doun represse. (at embossing n. b)].

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 215 If the same be made hollowe imbossing towarde the myddle.

a. spec. To carve or mould in relief; to cause (figures, part of a wrought surface) to stand out, project, or protrude. Also figurative. The earliest and the prevailing modern sense. [So French imbocer (Palsgrave).]

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [verb (transitive)] > represent in relief

embossc1385

enlevec1400

boss1530

huffle1638

α.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women, Dido Of gold the barris vp enbosede [v.r. enbossed].

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 194 Images came into the Church, not now in painted cloths only, but embossed in stone.

1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 76 Fleur-de-lis embossed out of the stone.

1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1842) II. 322 Such claims..stood embossed, and..forced themselves on the view of common, short-sighted benevolence.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 37 A gold sword-hilt..being actually embossed on the picture.

1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/6 Farmer's apparatus..for chasing, glazing, and embossing cloth.

β. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 75 Fish..in Antique worke most curiously imbost.1677 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 807 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.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [verb (transitive)] > adorn with figures in relief

emboss1430

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xx An epythaphe..With letters ryche of golde aboue enboced.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvi. sig. e.vii^v The ten plages of Egypte, were well embost.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 602 Siluer plate curiously enchased and imbossed.

1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 299 How come they [Samaritan letters] to adorn and emboss vessels and coins?

1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 293 Regal robe with figur'd gold embost.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lx. 523 The sides were embossed with a variety of picturesque..scenes.

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xi. 69 Calicoes..embossed all over with various raised patterns.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. viii. 279 The rich bronze which embossed its gates.

1855 T. B. Macaulay 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn richly

pridec1225

emboss1578

shrine1582

invest1607

ouchea1729

α.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. A girdle of gelt Embost with buegle.

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B 3^v His house..he found not gorgeously embost, yet gayly trimmed.

a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 29/1 Bright Portals of the Sky, Emboss'd with sparkling Stars.

1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. iii. 14 The Chariots..being richly emboss'd with Gold, and other Metals.

1710 London Gaz. No. 4672/1 The Harness was embossed with Silver Plates.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 426 The studs, that thick emboss his iron door.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 64 Whose tresses the dewdrops emboss.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. ii. 19 [Sidney] Did we not emboss our bosoms with the crocusses.

β. 1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery With buyldings brave, imbost of variant hue.1785 W. Cowper Task i. 121 I fed on..berries that imboss the bramble.

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embossv.²

Forms: Also Middle English embose, enbose, 1500s–1700s imboss.

Etymology: Middle English embose , perhaps < en- prefix¹ + Old French bos, bois wood; the equivalent Old French embuiser occurs with sense of ambush v. 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.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: emˈboss.

Obsolete exc. archaic in sense 4.

†1.

a. intransitive. Of a hunted animal: To take shelter in, plunge into, a wood or thicket. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animals hunted > [verb (intransitive)] > hide in wood or marsh

embossc1369

sough1898

c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 352 [The hunters recounted] how the hert had vpon lengthe So moche embosed [v.r. enbosed, enbosid] I not nowe what.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 8 Look quickly, lest the Sight of us Should cause the startled Beast t' imboss.

†b. The past participle is used by Milton for imbosked.

ΚΠ

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1700 Like that self-begott'n bird In the Arabian woods embost .

†2. To drive (a hunted animal) to extremity. Obsolete.(The sense ‘drive to a thicket,’ required by the etymology above suggested, is not clearly evidenced).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > drive to extremity

emboss1590

imbost1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb8 Curres..hauing at a bay The saluage beast embost in wearie chace.

1594 M. Drayton Matilda sig. E4 Like a Roe, before the hounds imbost.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 99 We haue almost imbost him, you shall see his fall to night.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. vi. 210 As Mules and Horses, who are imboss'd, foame and chafe the more.

1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iv. 45 Was ever Lion thus by Dogs emboss'd?

1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I To Emboss (in Hunting), to inclose in a Thicket.

†3. In passive of a hunted animal: To be exhausted by running; hence, to foam at the mouth (as a result of exhaustion in running). Also transferred of persons: (a) To be exhausted, at the last extremity of fatigue; (b) to foam at the mouth (from rage, etc.). Obsolete.[The sense ‘to foam at the mouth’ is probably 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).]

ΚΠ

1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 24 Where hartis belluyng, embosyd with distres Ran on the raunge.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 242 When he is foamy at the mouth, we saye that he is embost.

1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile cxxiii With rage imbost.

1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. iv. 25 A stag..imbost, that is, foaming..about the mouth.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Malmené,..imbossed, or almost spent, as a Deere by hard pursuit.

1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. ii. xxiv. 191 As a stag embossed takes the soyle.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. xlix He [the stag] is imbos'd, and weary'd to a Bay.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 485 The Huntsman knows him by a thousand Marks, Black, and Imbost.

figurative.1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 158 My chased Heart imboste and almost spent.1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems (1717) 227 My spirit's faint..my soul's imbost.

4. transitive. To cover with foam (the mouth, the body of an animal). archaic.

ΚΠ

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vi. sig. Pv By furie chaunged in to an horrible figure, his mouthe foule & imbosed.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 10 Embossed with foam, and dark with soil, The labouring stag strained full in view.

1829 A. Cunningham Magic Bridle in Anniversary 148 He saw a wild steed..White foam his flanks embossing.

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† embossv.³

Etymology: apparently first in Spenser; perhaps < en- prefix¹ + boss n.³ The Spanish embozarse to envelop oneself in a cloak, has also been suggested. Some of the quots. might belong to emboss v.¹ in sense ‘decorate’.

Obsolete.

transitive. To cover, encase (in armour); to plunge (a weapon) in an enemy's body. Also figurative in passive. To be ‘wrapped’ (in ease).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > of armour: protect [verb (transitive)] > clothe with or encase in

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tirec1330

harnessc1380

haspc1400

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clothe1590

dight1590

emboss1590

array1809

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon > thrust a pointed weapon

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stickc1390

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gar1587

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scour1613

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C5 A knight her mett in mighty armes embost.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc6 None of them rashly durst..In so glorious spoile themselues embosse.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L^v The knight his thrillant speare again assayd In his bras-plated body to embosse.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc6^v Vowing, that neuer he..Would..lig in ease embost .

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 175 A Souldier embossed all in gold [L. praecingitur auro].

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† embossv.⁴

Etymology: < French embosser to attach a ‘spring’ to a cable, < en- (see en- prefix¹) + bosse knot at the end of a rope.

Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

(See quot. 1768 and etymology: evidence of English use is wanting.)

ΚΠ

1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I To Emboss a Cable (sea Term.)

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n.1644

v.¹c1385

v.²c1369

v.³1590

v.⁴1768

单词	emboss
释义	† embossn. Etymology: < emboss v.¹ Obsolete. rare. A boss-like projection; a knob. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part busta1250 bouging1398 gibbosityc1400 embossingc1430 breasta1450 belly1591 tumour1601 extuberance1607 belly-piece1609 embossment1610 outswelling1611 extuberation1615 protuberation1615 swelling1615 extuberancy1634 popple1635 protuberance1635 emboss1644 extancy1644 bump1653 protuberancy1653 protuberating1667 swell1683 bulge1741 boss1791 bulging1828 protuberosity1860 tuber1888 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 124 A round emboss of marble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). embossv.¹ Brit. /ɪmˈbɒs/, /ɛmˈbɒs/, U.S. /əmˈbɔs/, /ɛmˈbɔs/, /əmˈbɑs/, /ɛmˈbɑs/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s enbos(s, Middle English enboce. Etymology: probably < Old French emboce-r (apparently not recorded before 1530): see en- prefix¹ and boss n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To cause to bulge or swell out, make convex or protuberant; to cover with protuberances. In modern use chiefly transferred* from 2 or 3. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (transitive)] > distend > swell swella1400 puffc1460 embossc1475 extend1481 heave1573 ball1593 tympanize1593 tumefy1597 hove1601 bladder1610 buzzlea1634 burly1635 inflatea1705 bumfle1832 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)] bossc1380 embossc1475 bag1582 belly1609 womb?1623 bumpa1680 protuberate1778 bilge1808 hump1840 bulge1865 the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > make protuberant [verb (transitive)] > cover with protuberances embossc1475 α. c1475 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Harl. 2251) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 28 To enboce thy Iowis withe mete. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Dij^v Some [bones] are enbossed for to entre. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 92 When God..Embast the Valleys, and embost the Hills. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 334 Embossed with fat. 1712 J. Gay Arachne in A. Pope Misc. Poems 83 Her trembling Hand, emboss'd with livid Veins. 1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 21 With boils embossed, and overgrown with scurf. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xxi. 18 Its fretted roots Embossed the bank. 1868 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold III. v. iii. 413 It is everywhere unequal, embossed with hill-tops. β. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 13 Her Body is..imboss'd all over with black knobs.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 180 Botches and blaines must all his flesh imboss. View more context for this quotation †b. figurative. to emboss (out): to inflate (style), render tumid; to give exaggerated prominence to. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > embellish [verb (transitive)] > make bombastic to emboss1564 bombast1573 starch1656 tumefy1677 1564 Briefe Exam. iiij b Ye embosse out your glorious stiles. 1565 J. Jewel Replie Hardinges Answeare* i. 48 It hath pleased M. Hardinge thus to coloure, and to embosse out this aunciente Father. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 94/2 Thinking by their embossed speech to tickle the eares and harts of the yoong princes. 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 39 Embossed Language tickles the eares. †c. intransitive. To bulge, be convex. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > be or become protuberant [verb (intransitive)] struta1300 bouge1398 embossc1430 bagc1440 bossc1449 bunch1495 bump1566 boin1567 protuberate1578 pagglea1592 bulch1611 extuberate1623 belly1627 heave1629 bulge1679 swell1679 bud1684 pod1806 bilge1849–52 sag1853 knucklec1862 poocha1903 c1430 [implied in: J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xx. 36 If their brestes up to high them dresse, They can..thenbosing doun represse. (at embossing n. b)]. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 215 If the same be made hollowe imbossing towarde the myddle. 2. a. spec. To carve or mould in relief; to cause (figures, part of a wrought surface) to stand out, project, or protrude. Also figurative. The earliest and the prevailing modern sense. [So French imbocer (Palsgrave).] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [verb (transitive)] > represent in relief embossc1385 enlevec1400 boss1530 huffle1638 α. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women, Dido Of gold the barris vp enbosede [v.r. enbossed]. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 194 Images came into the Church, not now in painted cloths only, but embossed in stone. 1644 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 76 Fleur-de-lis embossed out of the stone. 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1842) II. 322 Such claims..stood embossed, and..forced themselves on the view of common, short-sighted benevolence. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 37 A gold sword-hilt..being actually embossed on the picture. 1885 Manch. Examiner 5 June 5/6 Farmer's apparatus..for chasing, glazing, and embossing cloth. β. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 75 Fish..in Antique worke most curiously imbost.1677 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1676 (Royal Soc.) 11 807 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [verb (transitive)] > adorn with figures in relief emboss1430 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. xx An epythaphe..With letters ryche of golde aboue enboced. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvi. sig. e.vii^v The ten plages of Egypte, were well embost. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 602 Siluer plate curiously enchased and imbossed. 1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 299 How come they [Samaritan letters] to adorn and emboss vessels and coins? 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 293 Regal robe with figur'd gold embost. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. lx. 523 The sides were embossed with a variety of picturesque..scenes. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xi. 69 Calicoes..embossed all over with various raised patterns. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. viii. 279 The rich bronze which embossed its gates. 1855 T. B. Macaulay 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > adorn richly pridec1225 emboss1578 shrine1582 invest1607 ouchea1729 α. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. A girdle of gelt Embost with buegle. 1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B 3^v His house..he found not gorgeously embost, yet gayly trimmed. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 29/1 Bright Portals of the Sky, Emboss'd with sparkling Stars. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. iii. 14 The Chariots..being richly emboss'd with Gold, and other Metals. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4672/1 The Harness was embossed with Silver Plates. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 426 The studs, that thick emboss his iron door. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 64 Whose tresses the dewdrops emboss. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. ii. 19 [Sidney] Did we not emboss our bosoms with the crocusses. β. 1578 T. Proctor Gorgious Gallery With buyldings brave, imbost of variant hue.1785 W. Cowper Task i. 121 I fed on..berries that imboss the bramble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). embossv.² Forms: Also Middle English embose, enbose, 1500s–1700s imboss. Etymology: Middle English embose , perhaps < en- prefix¹ + Old French bos, bois wood; the equivalent Old French embuiser occurs with sense of ambush v. 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.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: emˈboss. Obsolete exc. archaic in sense 4. †1. a. intransitive. Of a hunted animal: To take shelter in, plunge into, a wood or thicket. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animals hunted > [verb (intransitive)] > hide in wood or marsh embossc1369 sough1898 c1369 G. Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 352 [The hunters recounted] how the hert had vpon lengthe So moche embosed [v.r. enbosed, enbosid] I not nowe what. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 8 Look quickly, lest the Sight of us Should cause the startled Beast t' imboss. †b. The past participle is used by Milton for imbosked. ΚΠ 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1700 Like that self-begott'n bird In the Arabian woods embost . View more context for this quotation †2. To drive (a hunted animal) to extremity. Obsolete.(The sense ‘drive to a thicket,’ required by the etymology above suggested, is not clearly evidenced). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > drive to extremity emboss1590 imbost1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Bb8 Curres..hauing at a bay The saluage beast embost in wearie chace. 1594 M. Drayton Matilda sig. E4 Like a Roe, before the hounds imbost. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. vi. 99 We haue almost imbost him, you shall see his fall to night. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. vi. 210 As Mules and Horses, who are imboss'd, foame and chafe the more. 1680 T. Otway Hist. Caius Marius iv. 45 Was ever Lion thus by Dogs emboss'd? 1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I To Emboss (in Hunting), to inclose in a Thicket. †3. In passive of a hunted animal: To be exhausted by running; hence, to foam at the mouth (as a result of exhaustion in running). Also transferred of persons: (a) To be exhausted, at the last extremity of fatigue; (b) to foam at the mouth (from rage, etc.). Obsolete.[The sense ‘to foam at the mouth’ is probably 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).] ΚΠ 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 24 Where hartis belluyng, embosyd with distres Ran on the raunge. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 242 When he is foamy at the mouth, we saye that he is embost. 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile cxxiii With rage imbost. 1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. iv. 25 A stag..imbost, that is, foaming..about the mouth. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Malmené,..imbossed, or almost spent, as a Deere by hard pursuit. 1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. ii. xxiv. 191 As a stag embossed takes the soyle. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. xlix He [the stag] is imbos'd, and weary'd to a Bay. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iii. 485 The Huntsman knows him by a thousand Marks, Black, and Imbost. figurative.1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 158 My chased Heart imboste and almost spent.1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems (1717) 227 My spirit's faint..my soul's imbost. 4. transitive. To cover with foam (the mouth, the body of an animal). archaic. ΚΠ 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vi. sig. Pv By furie chaunged in to an horrible figure, his mouthe foule & imbosed. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 10 Embossed with foam, and dark with soil, The labouring stag strained full in view. 1829 A. Cunningham Magic Bridle in Anniversary 148 He saw a wild steed..White foam his flanks embossing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † embossv.³ Etymology: apparently first in Spenser; perhaps < en- prefix¹ + boss n.³ The Spanish embozarse to envelop oneself in a cloak, has also been suggested. Some of the quots. might belong to emboss v.¹ in sense ‘decorate’. Obsolete. transitive. To cover, encase (in armour); to plunge (a weapon) in an enemy's body. Also figurative in passive. To be ‘wrapped’ (in ease). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > of armour: protect [verb (transitive)] > clothe with or encase in armc1275 graith1297 enarmc1320 tirec1330 harnessc1380 haspc1400 endossa1500 armour1578 case1582 clothe1590 dight1590 emboss1590 array1809 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon > thrust a pointed weapon putc1275 shovec1275 rivec1330 stickc1390 stub1576 haft1582 uphilt1582 gar1587 embosom1590 emboss1590 flesh1590 imbrue1590 stabc1610 scour1613 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C5 A knight her mett in mighty armes embost. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc6 None of them rashly durst..In so glorious spoile themselues embosse. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xi. sig. L^v The knight his thrillant speare again assayd In his bras-plated body to embosse. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iv. sig. Cc6^v Vowing, that neuer he..Would..lig in ease embost . View more context for this quotation 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 175 A Souldier embossed all in gold [L. praecingitur auro]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021). † embossv.⁴ Etymology: < French embosser to attach a ‘spring’ to a cable, < en- (see en- prefix¹) + bosse knot at the end of a rope. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. (See quot. 1768 and etymology: evidence of English use is wanting.) ΚΠ 1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I To Emboss a Cable (sea Term.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1644v.¹c1385v.²c1369v.³1590v.⁴1768
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