emboss

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin.
2. v. To decorate with or as if with a raised design: emboss leather.
3. v. To adorn; decorate.
4. v. To cover with many protuberances; stud: "The whole buoy was embossed with barnacles” ( Herman Melville).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To form bosses on; fashion relief or raised work upon; ornament with bosses or raised work; cover or stud with protuberances, as a shield.
2. To represent in relief or raised work; specifically, in embroidery, to raise in relief by inserting padding under the stitches. See embossing.
3. n. A boss; a protuberance.
4. To conceal in or as in a wood or thicket.
5. To inclose as in a box; incase; sheathe.

Wiktionary

1. v. To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
2. v. obsolete Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
3. v. obsolete To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
2. v. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
3. v. obsolete To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
4. v. obsolete To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
5. v. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
6. v. obsolete To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. raise in a relief