Definition of Stamp

Stamp

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.

To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill.

To impress with some mark or figure; as, to stamp a plate with arms or initials.

Fig.: To impress; to imprint; to fix deeply; as, to stamp virtuous principles on the heart.

To cut out, bend, or indent, as paper, sheet metal, etc., into various forms, by a blow or suddenly applied pressure with a stamp or die, etc.; to mint; to coin.

To put a stamp on, as for postage; as, to stamp a letter; to stamp a legal document.

To strike; to beat; to crush.

To strike the foot forcibly downward.

The act of stamping, as with the foot.

The which stamps; any instrument for making impressions on other bodies, as a die.

The mark made by stamping; a mark imprinted; an impression.

that which is marked; a thing stamped.

A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; a plate.

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.

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.

An instrument for cutting out, or shaping, materials, as paper, leather, etc., by a downward pressure.

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.

Make; cast; form; character; as, a man of the same stamp, or of a different stamp.

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.

A half-penny.

Money, esp. paper money.

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A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
Newt Gingrich

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles Darwin

If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Evelyn Waugh

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Benito Mussolini

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore De Balzac

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.
Dave Barry

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire