Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - emboss

 I. transitive verb  Etymology: Middle English embosen to become exhausted from being hunted, ultimately from Anglo-French bois woods  Date: 14th century archaic to drive (as a hunted animal) to bay or to exhaustion  II. transitive verb  Etymology: Middle English embosen, from Middle French embocer, from en- + boce boss  Date: 15th century  1. to raise the surface of into bosses; especially to ornament with raised work  2. to raise in relief from a surface  3. adorn, embellish  • ~able adjective  • ~er noun  • ~ment noun