Stamped

ppl. a. [f. STAMP v. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Crushed by stamping; pounded with pestle and mortar; crushed or pounded in a stamp-mill; trodden hard with the feet.

1600.  Dekker, Shoomakers Holy-day (1610), C j b. Rose.… No doue was euer halfe so mild as he. Sibil. Mild? yea as a bushel of stampt crabs [sc. apples].

1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 768. Putting it into great Jars of Stone, and Stirring it about with a few Stamped Almonds.

1778.  Pryce, Min. Cornub., 238. Halvans stamped small, and then washed … is termed Stampt Ore.

1888.  E[mily] Gerard, Land beyond Forest, II. lv. 356. There was no such thing as a fireplace or chimney, but a heap of grey wood-ashes in the centre of the stamped earth-floor testified that a fire could be made notwithstanding.

  2.  Marked with a stamp or device. a. Of coin.

1581.  Cal. Laing Charters (1899), 254. Stampit penneis and plakis being exceptit.

1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 747. They often giue vs (Souldiers) the Lye, but wee pay them for it with stamped Coyne, not stabbing Steele.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxii. IV. 705. Nor did all the newly stamped silver pass into circulation.

  b.  Of paper: Furnished with a government revenue stamp; spec. in slang stamped paper = promissory notes. Of a National Health Insurance card: Having the required stamps affixed.

1710.  Swift, Jrnl. Stella, 3 Oct. He is discovered to have counterfeited stampt paper, in which he was a commissioner.

1765.  Universal Mag., XXXVII. Suppl. 375/2. A gallows was erected; on one end of which was suspended the effigy…; in his right hand he held a stamped bill of lading.

1809.  R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 5. Bills of Exchange … must be written on stamped paper.

1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, xxx. But since I’m married … I’ve not touched a bit of stamped paper.

1855.  Literary Gaz., 6 Jan., 1, heading. Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, Fivepence.

1864.  Once a Week, 25 June, 5/1. The money was paid, and the stamped warranty was given.

1913.  Times, 7 Aug., 3/3. They had become mere agents of the State for the receipt of stamped contribution cards and the payment of benefits.

  c.  Of an envelope or other postal wrapper: Having a postage stamp embossed or printed upon it or (in later use) attached to it.

1837.  Sir R. Hill, in G. B. Hill, Life (1880), I. 270. Let stamped covers and sheets of paper be supplied to the public from the Stamp Office or Post Office,… and sold at such a price as to include the postage. Ibid. (1839), On the Collection of Postage by means of Stamps, ibid. 346. Small stamped detached labels—say about an inch square—which, if prepared with a glutinous wash on the back, may be attached without a wafer.

1852.  U.S. Stat., X. 141, margin. Stamped letter envelopes to be printed. Ibid., X. 256. Stamped envelope,… stamped or printed envelopes … stamped letter envelope.

1854.  Poultry Chron., II. 242. All letters requiring a reply, must contain a stamped envelope.

  d.  Of notepaper: Having a device printed or embossed upon it.

1907.  Galsworthy, Country Ho., I. i. 1. The first footman took from his pocket a half-sheet of stamped and crested notepaper.

  3.  Ornamented with an embossed pattern or design.

  Stamped leather: an expensive kind of wall hanging used in the 16th–17th c. consisting of leather covered with silver leaf, varnished with a yellow lacquer to represent gold, and embossed with figures, a pattern, etc., and painted.

1756.  Mrs. Calderwood, in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club), 264. The curtain … is made of a red stamped English stuff.

1818.  Scott, Br. Lamm., xxvi. The inferior landholders and clergy, who usually ornamented their state apartments with hangings of a sort of stamped leather, manufactured in the Netherlands, garnished with trees and animals executed in copper foil.

1865.  Way, Promp. Parv., Pref. p. li. This MS. is in the original stamped binding with boards, probably of oak.

1874.  H. H. Cole, Catal. Ind. Art S. Kens. Mus., 150. Sword, iron hilted, with stamped leather scabbard.

1882.  Caulfeild & Saward, Dict. Needlework, 459/2. Stamped Velvet is employed for the making of dress bodices and trimmings. Ibid. Stamped velvet work, a modern Embroidery that is both effective and easy.

  4.  Of a device, name, etc.: Impressed by means of a stamp.

1865.  ‘Annie Thomas,’ On Guard, xxxv. Thinking the seal or stamped monogram would tell from whom it came.

1881–6.  Grosart, in Greene’s Wks., V. Note to title of Planetomachia. Our text of ‘Planetomachia’ is from that in the Bodleian, which bears the well-known stamped name of ‘George Steevens.’

  5.  Of metal-ware: Pressed into shape by means of a stamping machine.

1879.  Cassell’s Techn. Educ., IV. 263/1. The introduction of stamped brass-foundry created a new era in the trade.