emboss

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To mold or carve in relief.
• transitive verb To decorate with or as if with a raised design.
• transitive verb To adorn; decorate.
• transitive verb To cover with many protuberances; stud.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

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• verb raise in a relief