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- English Word Stamp Definition An offical mark set upon things chargeable with a duty or tax to government, as evidence that the duty or tax is paid; as, the stamp on a bill of exchange.
- English Word Stamp Definition Hence, a stamped or printed device, issued by the government at a fixed price, and required by law to be affixed to, or stamped on, certain papers, as evidence that the government dues are paid; as, a postage stamp; a receipt stamp, etc.
- English Word Stamp Definition An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.
- English Word Stamp Definition A character or reputation, good or bad, fixed on anything as if by an imprinted mark; current value; authority; as, these persons have the stamp of dishonesty; the Scriptures bear the stamp of a divine origin.
- English Word Stamp Definition Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.
- English Word Stamp Definition A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.
- English Word Stamp Definition A half-penny.
- English Word Stamp Definition Money, esp. paper money.
- English Word Stamped Definition of Stamp
- English Word Stampede Definition A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
- English Word Stampede Definition To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies.
- English Word Stampede Definition To disperse by causing sudden fright, as a herd or drove of animals.
- English Word Stamper Definition One who stamps.
- English Word Stamper Definition An instrument for pounding or stamping.
- English Word Stamping Definition of Stamp
- English Word Stamping Definition a. & n. from Stamp, v.
- English Word Stance Definition A stanza.
- English Word Stance Definition A station; a position; a site.
- English Word Stanch Definition To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
- English Word Stanch Definition To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
- English Word Stanch Definition To cease, as the flowing of blood.
- English Word Stanch Definition That which stanches or checks.
- English Word Stanch Definition A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
- English Word Stanch Definition Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
- English Word Stanch Definition Firm in principle; constant and zealous; loyal; hearty; steady; steadfast; as, a stanch churchman; a stanch friend or adherent.
- English Word Stanch Definition Close; secret; private.
- English Word Stanch Definition To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
- English Word Stanched Definition of Stanch
- English Word Stanchel Definition A stanchion.
- English Word Stancher Definition One who, or that which, stanches, or stops, the flowing, as of blood.