[em-baws, -bos] 
| 1. | to raise or represent (surface designs) in relief. |
| 2. | to decorate (a surface) with raised ornament. |
| 3. | Metalworking. to raise a design on (a blank) with dies of similar pattern, one the negative of the other. Compare coin (def. 10). |
| 4. | to cause to bulge out; make protuberant. |
| em·boss (ěm-bôs', -bŏs') tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es
[Middle English embosen, from Old French embocer : en-, in; see en-1 + boce, knob.] em·boss'er n. |
