3. Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

Em*boss"er (?; 115), n. One who embosses.

Em*boss"ment (?), n. 1. The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

2. A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure." Addison.

Em*bot"tle (?), v. t. To bottle. [R.] Phillips.

||Em`bou`chure" (?), n. [F., fr. emboucher to put to the mouth; pref. em- (L. in) + bouche the mouth. Cf. Embouge, Debouch.] 1. The mouth of a river; also, the mouth of a cannon.

2. (Mus.) (a) The mouthpiece of a wind instrument. (b) The shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece; as, a flute player has a good embouchure.

Em*bow" (?), v. t. To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott.

With gilded horns embowed like the moon.

Spenser.

Em*bow"el (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emboweled (?) or Embowelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Emboweling or Embowelling.] 1. To disembowel.

The barbarous practice of emboweling.

Hallam.

The boar . . . makes his trough

In your emboweled bosoms.

Shak.

Disembowel is the preferable word in this sense.

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