emboss

Meaning

Verb

• To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol, extrude.
• To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
• Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
• To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
• To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
• To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

Origin

• From Middle English embossen, embosen, embocen, from Old French embocer, equivalent to em- + boss.
• Perhaps from en- Old French bos, bois. Compare imbosk.