transfer

t. [Lat. transfero =to transport, to carry acro or over; trans acro , over, and fero to bear, to carry; Sp. transferir, trasferir; Ital. transfer ire, trasferire; Fr. transférer.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. To convey from one place or person to another; to transport or remove to another place or person; to pa or hand over. (Generally with to , into , or unto , rarely with on .) "Or here to combat, from their city far, Or back to Ilion's walls transfer the war." Pope: Homer's Iliad x. 483. 2. To make over the po e ion, right, or contro! of; to convey, as a right from one person to another; to sell, to give; as, to transfer land, to transfer stocks. II. Lithog .: To produce a facsimile of on a prepared stone by means of prepared paper and ink. [TRANSFER, 8. , II. 1.] "In Kuehn's mode of making pictures by transfer, the different colors requisite for a picture are printed on sized paper and succe ively transferred to a japanned plate."- Knight : Dict. Mech., s. v. Transfer. trăns-fer, s. [TRANSFER, v.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The removal or conveyance of a thing from one person or place to another; transference. "He would not, however, part with it till he had the cloth in his po e ion, and as there could be no transfer of property, if with equal caution I had insisted upon the same condition, I ordered the cloth to be handed down to him."-Cook: First Voyage , bk. ii., ch. ii. 2. The act of conveying right, title, or property, whether personal or real, from one person to another, by sale, deed, or otherwise. "Checks, Bills of Exchange, Promi ory Notes, are all transfers, as they all transfer a right due to one party from a second in favor of a third. But in the money market and Stock Exchange, the term has a more strictly technical meaning, and by transfer is understood the surrender by one party in favor of another of the right to dividends, annuities, ., derived from the shares of public companies, Government funds, foreign stocks, and the like." -Bithell : Counting-house Dict. 3. The deed or document by which right, title, or property in anything is conveyed from one person to another. "Amsterdam, where industry had been for so many years subsisted and circulated by transfers on paper."Berkeley: Querist , § 250. 4. That which is transferred. II. Technically : 1. Lithog .: An impre ion taken on paper, cloth, ., and then laid upon an object and caused to adhere thereto by pre ure. In engraving, a tracing may be made in pencil and transferred to the ground by running through the plate-pre . 2. Mil .: A soldier transferred from one troop or company to another. transfer-book, s. A register of the transfers of property, stock, or shares from one person to another.