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EMBOSS', v.t. [en, in, and boss.] In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.

1. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances.

2. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell.

EMBOSS', v.t. To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.]

EMBOSS', v.t. To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.]



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EMBOSS', v.t. [en, in, and boss.] In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.

1. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances.

2. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell.

EMBOSS', v.t. To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.]

EMBOSS', v.t. To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.]


EM-BOSS', v.t.1 [en, in and boss.]

  1. In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.
  2. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances. Milton.
  3. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell. Hanmer.

EMBOSS', v.t.2 [Fr. emboîter, for emboister, from boîte, boiste, a box.]

To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.] Spenser.


EM-BOSS', v.t.3 [It. imboscare, from bosco, a wood.]

To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.] Milton.


Em*boss"
  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 make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

    [Obs.]
  3. To hide or conceal in a thicket] to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

    [Obs.]

    In the Arabian woods embossed. Milton.

  4. To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

    [Obs.] S. Butler.
  5. 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.

  6. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

    A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

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Emboss

EMBOSS', verb transitive [en, in, and boss.] In architecture and sculpture, to form bosses or protuberances; to fashion in relievo or raised work; to cut or form with prominent figures.

1. To form with bosses; to cover with protuberances.

2. To drive hard in hunting, till a deer foams, or a dog's knees swell.

EMBOSS', verb transitive To inclose as in a box; to include; to cover. [Not used.]

EMBOSS', verb transitive To inclose in a wood; to conceal in a thicket. [Not used.]

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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DISPATCH, v.t. [L.]

1. To send or send away; particularly applied to the sending of messengers, agents and letters on special business, and often implying haste. The king dispatched and envoy to the court of Madrid. He dispatched a messenger to his envoy in France. He dispatched orders or letters to the commander of the forces in Spain. The president dispatched a special envoy to the court of St. James in 1794.

2. To send out of the world; to put to death.

The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. Ezekiel 23.

3. To perform; to execute speedily; to finish; as, the business was dispatched in due time.

DISPATCH, v.i. To conclude an affair with another; to transact and finish. [Not now used.]

They have dispatched with Pompey.

DISPATCH, n.

1. Speedy performance; execution or transaction of business with due diligence.

2. Speed; haste; expedition; due diligence; as, the business was done with dispatch; go, but make dispatch.

3. Conduct; management. [Not used.]

4. A letter sent or to be sent with expedition, by a messenger express; or a letter on some affair of state, or of public concern; or a packet of letters, sent by some public officer, on public business. It is often used in the plural. A vessel or a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister. A dispatch was immediately sent to the admiral. The secretary was preparing his dispatches.

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