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t. [ That sweet breath, Which was embounded in this beauteous clay. Shak ., K. John, iv. 3. I am embost With trotting all the streets to find Pandolfo. J. Tomkins (?), Albumazar. Embo ed velvet. Same as raised velvet (which see, under velret ). embo er (em-bos'èr), n. One who or that which embo es; something used for producing raised figures or impre ions. The first form of Morse recorder was the Embo er . Preece and Sivewright , Telegraphy, p. 67. embo ing (em-bos'ing), n. [Verbal n. of em bo 1 , v.] 1. The art or proce of producing raised or projecting figures or designs in relief upon surfaces. A common method of embo ing upon a wooden surface is by driving a blunt tool into the wood according to the desired pattern, then planing the surface down to the level of the sunken design, and afterward wetting it. The moisture causes the compre ed portions forming the design to rise to their original height, and thus to project from the planed surface. Embo ing on leather, paper, or cloth, as for book-covers, books for the blind, and various kinds of ornamental work, and also on metal, is usually effected by stamping with dies by means of an embo ing or stamping-pre , or the bookbinders' arıning-pre . Embo ing with the needle is done either by working over a pad made of cloth, sometimes in several thickne es, or by stuffing with wool, hair, or the like, under the threads, as in couched work. See embo ing machine. 2. A raised figure or design; an embo ment. [Rare.] For so letters, if they be so farre off as they cannot be discerned, shew but as a duskish paper; and all engravings and embo ings appear plain. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 878. A tool embo ing-iron (em-bos'ing-i"èrn), n . employed to produce a grained surface on marble. embo ing-machine (em-bos'ing-ma-shēn"), n. 1. A system of heated rolls, the faces of which are cut with an ornamental design, used to impre the design on figured velvets and other fabrics.-2. A machine for ornamenting wood surfaces by pre ing hot molds upon the wet I saw a bull as white as driven snowe, With gilded hornes, embowed like the moone. Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanity. For embowed windows, I hold them of good use. Bacon, Building (ed. 1887). To walk the studious cloysters pale, And love the high- embowed roof, With antick pillars ma y proof. ambushment. Then shuln ye euermo countrewaite emboy ements, and alle espiaile. Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. embrace1 (em-brās'), v.; pret. and pp. embraced, ppr. embracing. [Formerly also imbrace; And but as he enbrased his horse nekke he hadde fallen to the erthe all vp-right. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 331. Sir, I think myself happy in your acquaintance; and before we part, shall entreat leave to embrace you. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 225. Strong Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace . Tennyson, In Memoriam, Int. He took his place upon the double throne, She cast herself before him on her knees, Embracing his. IMG:content-0375.png:[blocks in formation] P. Hen . Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day, Though many dearer, in this bloody fray; Embowell'd will I see thee by and by; Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. Falstaff . [Rising slowly.] Embowelled ! if thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me to-morrow. Shak ., 1 Hen. IV., v. 4. W. W. Known and approved for his Art of Embalming, having preserved the Corps of a Gentlewoman sweet and entire Thirteen Years, without embowelling. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, Pref.