[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To mark or stamp with a watermark.
1866: see WATER-MARKED ppl. a.
1889. W. Lockhart, in Athenæum, 16 March, 345/1. The Chinese … for a long time past have had the art of water-marking paper.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 30 April, 7/2. A number of forged Bank of France notes were submitted, watermarked 1,000 francs.
2. To embody as a watermark.
1889. Century Mag., Nov., 94/2. The volumes … are without the final refinement of the recurring title water-marked in the lower margins of the page.
Hence Water-marked ppl. a.; Water-marking vbl. sb. (also attrib.).
1866. Rogers, Agric. & Prices, I. 644. Wired and water-marked paper is found soon afterwards [c. 1350].
1896. Daily News, 4 June, 7/7. The method of watermarking must not be forgotten. Ibid. (1897), 10 July, 8/3. All the dies and water-marking plates are here designed, and made for the Bank Notes, Postal Orders,… and other papers requiring a water-mark.
1913. Q. Rev., April, 401. All these have been tried, and, with the exception of the water-marking, wholly given up.
