butter-print
(ˈbʌtəprɪnt)
1. A stamp of carved wood for marking butter-pats; the impression of such a stamp.
| 1632 Brome North. Lasse ii. i. 23 A thumb-Ring with his Grandsirs Sheep-mark, or Grannams butter-print on't. a 1704 Locke Posth. Wks. (1706) 157 An infinite Butter-print, in which was ingraven Figures of all sorts and Sizes. 1822 Blackw. Mag. XII. 659 Much pastoral poetry now wore the semblance of very tasteful butter-prints. |
| comb. 1829 Southey Sir T. More II. 67 The various trades of Taylor, Clogger, and Butter-print maker. |
† 2. fig. A child.
Obs. slang.| 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. 1618 Fletcher Chances i. v, You will be wiser one day, when you have purchased A bevy of these butter-prints. 1709 Brit. 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.
| 1872 Illinois Dept. Agric. Trans. 1871 p. ix, The Indian Mallow (Abutilon Avicennae) is..known as..‘butter print’. 1899 Mem. Amer. Folk-Lore Soc. VII. 120 Abutilon Avicennae is called ‘butter-print’..because its pods are used to stamp butter. |