embossment

[Eng.embo (1), v.; -ment.] 1. Anything standing or jutting out from the rest; an eminence; a protuberance. "I wish, also, in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents and alleys, enough for four to walk abreast; which I would have to be perfect circles, without any bulwarks or embo ments."-Bacon. E ays: Of Gardens. 2. The act or art of embo ing or ornamenting with raised work. 3. Embo ed work; rilievo, or rising work. "They are at a lo about the word pendent is ; some fancy it expre es only the great embo ment of the figure, others believe it hung off the helmet in alto-rilievo." Add is on: On Italy .