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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unstampit, ppl. adj. and p.p. [e.m.E. unstampt (1594), unstamped (1622); Stampit ppl. adj., Stamp(e v.] Not stamped with an official mark. —ppl. adj. 1580 Reg. Privy S. VII 426/1.
All unstampit twentie, threttie and ten schilling peces and vnstampit testanis quhilkis pertenit to … Lady Grange 1622 (c1650) Dundee B. Laws 54.
Ther is great fraud visit be the meall makers … be the vsing of false straikes rolls and unstampit meall measors in mercats —p.p. 1632 Aberd. B. Rec. III 48.
That na elne nor weycht, unstampit with the tounes stampt be vsit be any of thame a1633 Hope Major Pract. II 164.
They producit the principall [of ane horneing] unstampit, quhilk wes alleadgeat to be null
