EMBOSS
\ɛmbˈɒs], \ɛmbˈɒs], \ɛ_m_b_ˈɒ_s]\
Definitions of EMBOSS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
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To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
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To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
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To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
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To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
By Oddity Software
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To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
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To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
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To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
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To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
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To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To form bosses or protuberances on; to fashion in, or ornament with, raised work.
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To drive hard in hunting till a deer foams or a dog's knees swell.
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To enclose, as in a box; to cover; to conceal in a thicket.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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flame-bearer
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