Usually means: Impress design by stamping surface.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. emboss: Merriam-Webster
  2. emboss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. emboss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. emboss: Collins English Dictionary
  5. emboss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Emboss, emboss: Wordnik
  7. emboss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. emboss: Wiktionary
  9. emboss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. emboss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. emboss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Emboss, emboss: Dictionary.com
  13. emboss: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. EMBOSS, Emboss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Emboss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. emboss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. emboss: Rhymezone
  18. Emboss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. emboss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. emboss: FreeDictionary.org
  21. emboss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. emboss: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. emboss: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. emboss: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. emboss: Graphic Design Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. emboss: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emboss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. EMBOSS: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Emboss: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See embossable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (emboss)

verb:  To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.
verb:  To make (a design on a coin, an ornament on an object, etc.) stand out from a surface.
verb:  To represent (a subject) on an object in relief; also, of a design or subject: to stand out on (an object) in relief.
verb:  To decorate or mark (something) with a design or symbol in relief.
verb:  To decorate (something) with bosses (“ornamental convex protuberances”); to boss; hence, to decorate (something) richly.
verb:  (figurative)
verb:  To cause (something) to be prominent or stand out.
verb:  (obsolete) To make (speech, etc.) unduly bombastic or grand.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”)
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a forest or wood.
verb:  (by extension, transitive, chiefly passive voice, obsolete) To drive (a hunted animal) to exhaustion by chasing it; to exhaust; hence, to make (a hunted animal) foam at the mouth due to exhaustion from being chased.
verb:  (by extension from sense 2)
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To cause (an animal's body, a person's mouth, etc.) to be covered with foam.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To cause (someone, their heart or soul, etc.) to become extremely fatigued; to exhaust.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to foam at the mouth; also (figurative), to be furious, to rage.
verb:  To enclose or suit (a person) in armour.
verb:  (figurative) To enclose or surround (someone or something).

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