EMBOSS

I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English embosen to become exhausted from being hunted, ultimately from Anglo-French bois woods Date: 14th century 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 to raise the surface of into bosses, to raise in relief from a surface, adorn , embellish , ~able adjective ~er noun ~ment noun