embosser

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

em•boss /ɛmˈbɔs, -ˈbɑs/   v. [~ + object]

1. to decorate (a surface) with raised designs or decorations:
   He embossed the sword with the design of a bull.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

em•boss  (em bôs′, -bos′), v.t. 

1. to raise or represent (surface designs) in relief.
2. to decorate (a surface) with raised ornament.
3. Metallurgy to raise a design on (a blank) with dies of similar pattern, one the negative of the other. Cf. coin (def. 12).
4. to cause to bulge out;
   make protuberant.

• Middle French embocer, equivalent. to em- em-¹ + boce boss²
• Middle English embosen 1350–1400

em•boss′a•ble, adj. 
em•boss′er, n. 
em•boss′ment, n.