Lexicographical Neighbors of Embost
Literary usage of Embost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"A stag was said to be embossed (embost) when blown and fatigued with being ...
3; 'The salvage beast embost in wearie chace', Spenser, FQ iii. 1. 22. ..."
2. The Boke Named The Gouernour by Thomas Elyot (1883)
"Besides, the miller's boy told me euen now He saw him take soile, and he hallowed
him. Affirming him so embost that long he could not hold/ steps, ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"Neither in Paul's74, at home, nor in the Exchange, 711 am embost.] This is a term
of the chace. Turberville, in his book of hunting, ..."
4. Faery Queene: Book I by Edmund Spenser, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1901)
"2g, 'our feeble harts embost with bale;' embossed, a hunting term; a stag was
said to be ... 24, 'a knight her met in mighty armes embost,' ie inclosed. ..."
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