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slight degree; to render tipsy. [Colloq. & Sportive] "The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo." Sir W. Scott.

To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

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

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.

A genus of cactaceous plants having flattened, jointed stems, and petals united in a tube. The flowers are very showy, and several species are in cultivation.

A stub, like soft horn, about the size of a chestnut, situated behind and below the pastern joint.

A group of chætopod annelids, including those that are not confined to tubes. See Chætopoda. [Written also Errantes.]

Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter. Eustachian catheter, a tubular instrument to be introduced into the Eustachian tube so as to allow of inflation of the middle ear through the nose or mouth. -- Eustrachian tube (Anat.), a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eusta…

Characterized by a current which flows outward; as, an excurrent orifice or tube.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

noise, as by powder. But late the kindled powder did explode The massy ball and the brass tube unload. Blackmore.

), a condition of pregnancy in which the fetus is not in the uterus, but in the Fallopian tube or in the abdominal cavity.

The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.

A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2…

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. Evelyn.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.