[f. TRANSFER v.]
1. Law. Conveyance from one person to another of property, spec. of shares or stock.
1674. Court Bks. Roy. Afr. Co. (P.R.O.). [Form of acceptance] I do accept of —— his transfer of £— abovesaid the day and year abovewritten.
1693. Act 5 Will. & Mary, c. 7. § 47. The Fee for examining … a Tickett or Tally in order to make a true Assignement or Transfer … shall … be One penny.
1694. Bank of Eng. Charter, 27 July. There shall be constantly kept … a Register, or Book or Books, wherein all Assignments and Transfers shall be entered.
1727. Swift, What passed in Lond., Wks. 1755, III. I. 189. All the Thursday morning was taken up in private transfers.
1766. Blackstone, Comm., II. i. 9. The reciprocal transfer of property by sale, grant, or conveyance.
1788. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 367. Observations on the transfer of our domestic debt to foreigners.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. IV. i. 5. The office in which are effected the transfers of the Company’s stock and annuities.
1836. J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., vii. (1852), 204. The lowest case of legal transfer is that of a debt.
2. gen. The act of transferring or fact of being transferred; conveyance or removal from one place, person, etc., to another; transference; transmission.
1785. Burke, Corr. (1844), III. 33. To remonstrate against the transfer of an immense sum of public money from the national service.
1811. J. Adams, Wks. (1856), X. 3. I wait with patience for a transfer to another scene.
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., I. iii. An amply sufficient cause for the transfer of his allegiance.
1870. Jevons, Elem. Logic, iv. 32. Equivocal words have become so by a transfer of meaning.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., 1334/2. The third lithographic method is by transfer…. The work is not drawn or engraved upon the stone direct, but is placed there in a completed condition from some source furnishing it.
1907. Trans. Devon Assoc., 50. The transfer of the county See to Exeter.
b. Naut. In tacking: The distance traversed at right angles to the line of advance.
1889. Cent. Dict., s.v. Advance 12, In naval tactics, the distance made by a ship under way, in the direction of her course, after the helm has been put to one side and kept there; opposed to transfer, the distance made at right angles to the original course.
3. A thing (rarely, a person) that is transferred; spec. writing, drawing, or a design, conveyed from one surface to another in lithography, photography, and the like.
1839. Trans. Royal Soc., IV. 133. Twenty-three specimens of photographs, made by Sir John Herschel, accompany this paper … copies of engravings and drawings, some reverse, or first transfers; and others second transfers or re-reversed pictures.
1864. Webster, Transfer … a soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., Transfer, an impression taken on paper, cloth, etc., and then laid upon an object and caused to adhere thereto by pressure.
1880. Print. Trades Jrnl., XXXI. 38. A transfer paper is prepared…, on which the transfer to be preserved is pulled.
1883. Hardwich’s Photogr. Chem., 311. If a mat surface be desired, the transfer should be stripped from the glass before it is quite dry.
4. A means or place of transfer. Chiefly U.S. spec. a. U.S. Post Office. A telegraphic money-order. b. On a railway, etc.:
(a) A place at which trains or cars are transferred to a ferry for water transport; also, a ferry by which trains or cars are transported. (b) A siding connecting tracks at a crossing or on different levels (Webster, 1911). (c) A transfer-ticket (Cent. Dict.). (d) The conveyance of passengers and luggage from one railway station to another, when these are not contiguous; hence transfer-company, a company which undertakes such conveyance between stations.
c. Archery. A sheet to which all scores are transferred from the target-papers.
1909. Cent. Dict. Suppl., s.v., The transfers are the official record from which the prize-list is made up.
5. attrib. and Comb., as transfer-boat, -clerk, -company (4 b), -deed, -department, -form, office, -process, rate; transfer-book, a register of transfers of property, esp. that of its shares or stock, kept by a joint-stock company; transfer-day, at the Bank of England, a day for the register of transfers of bank-stock; transfer-elevator, a crane for transferring cargo from one vessel to another; transfer-fee, that charged by a joint-stock company for registering a transfer; transfer-gilding, in ceramics, transfer of a pattern in gold, as from paper to unglazed ware; transfer-ink, ink used in lithography; transfer-jar, a jar used in the collection of gases over liquid; transfer-lathe: see quot.; transfer-lithography: see sense 3; transfer-paper, paper used in making transfers in lithography and other processes; transfer-press, in engraving, a transferring machine; transfer-printing, a process by which designs are printed on fictile and other ware (so transfer-printed adj.); also printing by means of lithography; transfer-station (U.S.), a point at which transfer-tickets are given, and passengers transferred from one car to another (Cent. Dict. Supp.); transfer-table (U.S.), a railway traverse-table; transfer-ticket, a ticket entitling a passenger to change from a conveyance to one on another line or route without re-booking or further payment; a through ticket; transfer-work, designs made by transferring or transfer-printing.
1888. Daily News, 10 Dec., 6/8. The *transfer boat Maryland was conveying a section of a train from Washington to Boston across the Haarlem River, at midnight.
1694. J. Houghton, Collect. Improv. Husb. & Trade, V. No. 102 (13 July). The Seller goes to the Clerk of the Company … appointed to keep a Book of Alienations, called a *Transferr Book, and there he transferrs the Shares he has sold to the Buyer.
1701. Lond. Gaz., No. 3737/4. The Transfer Books of the Bank will be shut up from Monday the 15th Instant to Friday the 10th of October next, in order to a Dividend.
1746. Fielding, True Patriot, No. 10. The cash, transfer books, &c. removed to the tower, from the Bank.
1834. [S. Smith], Lett. J. Downing, xxvi. (1835), 170. What the Treasury calls contingent drafts, and *transfer checks, and Treasury warrants.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 7 Sept., 7/1. It is nothing … for a *transfer clerk to wait for forty-five minutes at the Associated office.
1909. Eliz. L. Banks, Myst. Fras. Farrington, 159. These trunks had been delivered by a responsible *Transfer Company’s waggon.
1771. App. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 209/2. He recollected it was not *transfer-day.
1884. Knight, Dict. Mech., Suppl., *Transfer-elevator, an elevator or crane for hoisting from one vessel into another.
1832. Babbage, Econ. Manuf., xi. (ed. 3), 78. A single copy might be printed off with *transfer ink.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xv. (1842), 322. Capped or *transfer jars are such as, being open above, have a cap cemented upon them, the latter being surmounted by a stop-cock. Ibid., xxiv. 627. Fill a transfer jar … with water … over the trough.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., *Transfer-lathe, for … reducing large designs in relief to proportions suitable for coin.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 5 April, 7/3. To the average man the difference between ‘lithography’ and *‘transfer-lithography’ matters little.
1693. Act 5 Will. & Mary, c. 7 § 54. The *Transfer Office above mentioned shall bee continued.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, *Transfer-paper, prepared paper used by lithographers; thin, unsized paper for taking copies of letters with a copying-press.
1878. Abney, Photogr. (1881), 171. A piece of transfer paper (which is paper coated with gelatine subsequently rendered insoluble in water by alum or other such body) is placed in water of about 60° C., and softened.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., *Transfer-press.
1865. Athenæum, 25 Nov., 733/1. *Transfer-printing in pottery.
1905. Daily Chron., 24 Aug., 3/2. The single invention in porcelain decoration at our credit in the eighteenth century was transfer-printing.
1877. Knight, Dict. Mech., 2368/2. Jacob Perkins, of Massachusetts, the inventor of the *transfer-process.
1861. Massachusetts Stat., 199 § 2. *Transfer ticket.
