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EMBOSSMENT

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em⋅boss

  [em-baws, -bos]
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–verb (used with object)
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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME embosen < MF embocer, equiv. to em- em- 1 + boce boss 2

Related forms:
em⋅boss⋅a⋅ble, adjective
em⋅boss⋅er, noun
em⋅boss⋅ment, noun
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em·boss·ment   (ěm-bôs'mənt, -bŏs'-)   
n.  

  1. The act or process of embossing or the condition of being embossed.

  2. Embossed ornamentation.

  3. The distance between the nondeformed part of a document surface and a specified point on a printed character in optical character recognition.

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Word Origin & History

emboss 
c.1386, from O.Fr. embocer, from boce "knoblike mass" (see boss (2)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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