Formed of or furnished with bosses or raised figures: as, embossed leather; embossed writing.In botany, projecting in the center like the boss or umbo of a round shield or target.Swollen; puffed up.In entomology, having several plane tracts of any shape elevated above the rest of the surface: said of the sculpture of insects.In glassdecoration, grained.Foaming at the mouth and panting, as from exhaustion with running: a hunting term formerly applied to dogs and beasts of the chase.