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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Embossed \Em*bossed"\ (?; 115), adjective
1. Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
2. Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.
3. Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] ''An embossed carbuncle.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Emboss \Em*boss"\ (?; 115), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Embossed} (?; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. {Embossing}.] [Pref. em- (L. in) + boss: cf. OF. embosser to swell in bunches.]
1. To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. --Milton.
2. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death. --Dryden.
Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
embossed
adjective: embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery; "brocaded silk"; "an embossed satin"; "embossed leather"; "raised needlework"; "raised metalwork" [syn: {brocaded}, {raised}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "embossed": anaglyphic, anaglyptic, anastatic, bold, bossed, bossy, carved, ceroplastic, chased, confirmed, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, engrafted, engraved, engraven, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, glyphic, glyptic, graven, hammered, implanted, impressed, imprinted, in relief, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, inveterate, inwrought, long-established, modeled, molded, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, raised, rooted, sculpted, sculptile, sculptured, set, settled, stabilized, toreutic, vested, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled
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