† Emboast

v. Obs. [cf. EMBOSS v., EMBOSTURE.] trans. ? To carve (on a building).

1575.  Fenton, trans. Guevara, in Golden Epistles, 72. Men beare more honor to the Sepulchres of the vertuous, then to the emboasted Palaices of the wicked. Ibid. (1579), trans. Guicciardini’s Hist. Ital., 1070. Skootchions … affixed and emboasted to the publike pallaices.