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Butter-print. World English Historical Dictionary

Butter-print. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Butter-print 1.  A stamp of carved wood for marking butter-pats; the impression of such a stamp.

1 1632.  Brome, North. Lasse, II. i. 23. A thumb-Ring with his Grandsirs Sheep-mark, or Grannams butter-print on’t.

2 a. 1704.  Locke, Posth. Wks. (1706), 157. An infinite Butter-print, in which was ingraven Figures of all sorts and Sizes.

3 1822.  Blackw. Mag., XII. 659. Much pastoral poetry now wore the semblance of very tasteful butter-prints.

4   comb.  1829.  Southey, Sir T. More, II. 67. The various trades of Taylor, Clogger, and Butter-print maker.

5   † 2.  fig. A child. Obs. slang.

6 1616.  Beaum. & Fl., Wit without Money, V. iv. I hope she has brought me no butter-print along with her to lay to my charge.

7 1618.  Fletcher, Chances, I. v. You will be wiser one day, when you have purchased A bevy of these butter-prints.

8 1709.  Brit. Apollo, II. No. 46. 3/2. Her Girl and her Boy, For Patterns employ, To make little Butter-Prints by.

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