emboss3+ (embos)

t. [Altered from reg. * emboist, IMG:content-0373.png:[blocks in formation] A knight her mett in mighty armes embost . The knight his thrillant speare againe a ayd In his bras-plated body to embo e . Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 20. embo ed (em-bost'), p. a. (Formerly also im bo ed, embost, imbost; All the embo ed sores, and headed evils, That thou with licence of free foot hast caught, Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 4. In entom., having several plane tracts of any shape elevated above the rest of the surface: said of the sculpture of insects.-5. In gla decoration, grained.-6. [The particular allusion in this use is uncertain; perhaps to the bubbles of foam which "embo ," as it were, the animal's mouth, or else to its puffed cheeks. See the extract from the "Babees Book" under embo 1.] Foaming at the mouth and panting, as from exhaustion with running: a hunting term formerly applied to dogs and beasts of the chase. Anone vppon as she these word is saide, Ther come an hert in att the chaunber dore All embosed . Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 80. Like dastard Curres that, having at a bay The salvage beast embost in wearie chace, Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray, Ne byte before. Spenser, F. Q., III. i. 22. Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds: Brach Merriman, the poor cur is embo 'd. IMG:content-0374.png:[blocks in formation] J. Philips , Cider, ii. embrace The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn. D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together, i. embowl (em-bōl'), v. t. [ em -1 + bowll.] To form into or as into a bowl; give a globular form to. [Rare.] Long ere the earth, emboul'd by thee, Beare the forme it now doth beare: Yea, thou art God for ever, free From all touch of age and year. Sir P. Sidney, Ps. xc. [