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butter-print|ˈbʌtəprɪnt|
1. A stamp of carved wood for marking butter-pats; the impression of such a stamp.
1632Brome North. Lasse ii. i. 23 A thumb-Ring with his Grandsirs Sheep-mark, or Grannams butter-print on't. a1704Locke Posth. Wks. (1706) 157 An infinite Butter-print, in which was ingraven Figures of all sorts and Sizes. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 659 Much pastoral poetry now wore the semblance of very tasteful butter-prints.
comb.1829Southey Sir T. More II. 67 The various trades of Taylor, Clogger, and Butter-print maker.
†2. fig. A child. Obs. slang.
1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without Money v. iv, I hope she has brought me no butter-print along with her to lay to my charge. 1618Fletcher Chances i. v, You will be wiser one day, when you have purchased A bevy of these butter-prints. 1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 46. 3/2 Her Girl and her Boy, For Patterns employ, To make little Butter-Prints by.
3. The Indian mallow, Abutilon theophrasti, bearing a round seed-capsule marked with radiating furrows.
1872Illinois Dept. Agric. Trans. 1871 p. ix, The Indian Mallow (Abutilon Avicennae) is..known as..‘butter print’. 1899Mem. Amer. Folk-Lore Soc. VII. 120 Abutilon Avicennae is called ‘butter-print’..because its pods are used to stamp butter. |