emboss

¹em·boss

verb \im-ˈbäs, -ˈbȯs\

Definition of EMBOSS

transitive verb

archaic

: to drive (as a hunted animal) to bay or to exhaustion

Origin of EMBOSS

Middle English embosen to become exhausted from being hunted, ultimately from Anglo-French bois woods

First Known Use: 14th century

Rhymes with EMBOSS

bathos, benthos, bugloss, chaos, Chios, cosmos, Delos, demos, Ellás, en masse, Eos, epos, Eros, ethos, Hyksos, kaross, kudos, kvass, Lagos, Laos, Laplace, Lemnos, Lesbos, Logos, Madras, Melos, mythos, Naxos, Nepos, nol-pros, nonpros, pathos, peplos, Pharos, pit boss, pothos, ringtoss, Samos, Skyros, straw boss, telos, topos, tripos