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with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

rm of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp up…

A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.

To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

To seal; to confirm, as by a seal or stamp. [Obs.] Bradford.

Old; ancient; as, the olden time. "A minstrel of the olden stamp." J. C. Shairp.

ctment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed. "The passage of the Stamp Act." D. Hosack. The final question was then put upon its passage. Cushing. In passage, in passing; cursorily. "These . . . have been studied but in passage." Bacon. -- Middle passage, Northeast passage, Northwest passage.…

A crisp, hard, thin paper, sometimes used for postage stamps.

One versed in philately; one who collects postage stamps.

The collection of postage stamps of various issues.

A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.

A flat piece of metal; especially, a disk of metal ready to be stamped as a coin.

be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival.

A punch or stamp. [Obs.] "A pounce to print money with." Withals.

One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.

An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or presses.