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Definition of Embossed
1. Adjective. Embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery. "Raised metalwork"
Definition of Embossed
1. a. Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
Definition of Embossed
1. Verb. (past of ''emboss'') ¹
2. Adjective. With raised letters or images on the surface. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Embossed
1. emboss [v] - See also: emboss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embossed
Literary usage of Embossed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"helmet-shaped ewer, and the superb oval dish separately illustrated, iyi ins.
in diameter, and embossed with the triumph of Neptune and Venus. ..."
2. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Levelling, Showing Its ...by Frederick Walter Simms, Henry Law, John Cresson Trautwine by Frederick Walter Simms, Henry Law, John Cresson Trautwine (1856)
"Hamilton's English, German, and French,—German, French, and English,— French,
German, and English Dictionary, 3 vols. in 1, bound in embossed cloth, ..."
3. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge by ed Andrew Findlater, John Merry Ross (1868)
"embossed music, palpable to the touch, has been tried in instructing the В., ...
We now have to speak of the different systems of embossed printing (in ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1865)
"By JOSEPH II \VF N, Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Chicago
University. Boyal 12mo, cloth, embossed, 2.00. It U believed this work will be ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1858)
"embossed VENEERS. One of the most useful mechanical processes brought forward of
late, is that of embossing veneers for any kind of ornamental wood-work to ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... on which are engraved or embossed the letters of the alphabet arranged in
serial order at equal distances from each other, as in the diagram here given. ..."
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