embossed a hunting term, properly applied to a
deer when foaming at the mouth from fatigue:
“the poor cur is emboss'd,”
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW,
Induction, 1. 15
;
“the boar of Thessaly Was never so emboss'd”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iv. 13.
3
(foaming from rage);
“we have almost embossed him”
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, iii. 6.
90.
(made him foam at the mouth, hunted him to his fall)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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