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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
emboss .
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Examples
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It not only die cuts, it dry embosses too it might even bake you a cake.
Archive 2009-02-01 Holly 2009
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It not only die cuts, it dry embosses too it might even bake you a cake.
In Which I Remember I Do Like To Be Creative Holly 2009
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New York City embosses itself on its inhabitants -- perhaps as most towns do, only more so.
David Finkle: Every Street's a Jazz Boulevard in Old New York 2009
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The Hughes, or the Stock Exchange instruments, for instance, print the message in Roman characters; the sounders strike it out on stops or bells of different tone; the needle instruments indicate it by oscillations of their needles; the Morse daubs it in ink on paper, or embosses it by a hard style; while Bain's electro-chemical receiver stains it on chemically prepared paper.
Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889
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Other critics, who do like him, but who have limited their study to a certain portion of his books, compare him to a worker in gold, who carefully chases or embosses dainty processions of fauns and maenads.
Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878
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Dacy; “and besides, there is another use of a grave which I have often observed in old English graveyards, where the moss grows green, and embosses the letters of the gravestones; and also graves are very good for flower-beds.”
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"I still adhere to what I said," answered Sibyl Dacy; "and besides, there is another use of a grave which I have often observed in old English graveyards, where the moss grows green, and embosses the letters of the gravestones; and also graves are very good for flower-beds."
Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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Fabricators can use one holder with a variety of special forming inserts - anything from countersinks and continuous beads to formed embosses for logos and branding.
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Fabricators can use one holder with a variety of special forming inserts - anything from countersinks and continuous beads to formed embosses for logos and branding.
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Fabricators can use one holder with a variety of special forming inserts - anything from countersinks and continuous beads to formed embosses for logos and branding.
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