From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Press \Press\, n. (Zool.)
An East Indian insectivore ({Tupaia ferruginea}). It is
arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is
soft, and varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish
black.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Press \Press\, v. t. [Corrupt. fr. prest ready money advanced, a
loan; hence, earnest money given soldiers on entering
service. See {Prest}, n.]
To force into service, particularly into naval service; to
impress.
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To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Press \Press\, n. [For prest, confused with press.]
A commission to force men into public service, particularly
into the navy.
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I have misused the king's press. --Shak.
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{Press gang}, or {Pressgang}, a detachment of seamen under
the command of an officer empowered to force men into the
naval service. See {Impress gang}, under {Impress}.
{Press money}, money paid to a man enlisted into public
service. See {Prest money}, under {Prest}, a.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Press \Press\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pressed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pressing}.] [F. presser, fr. L. pressare to press, fr.
premere, pressum, to press. Cf. {Print}, v.]
1. To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon
by pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to
crowd or compel by a gradual and continued exertion; to
bear upon; to squeeze; to compress; as, we press the
ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on
which we repose; we press substances with the hands,
fingers, or arms; we are pressed in a crowd.
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Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together.
--Luke vi. 38.
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2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of;
to squeeze out, or express, from something.
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From sweet kernels pressed,
She tempers dulcet creams. --Milton.
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And I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's
hand. --Gen. xl. 11.
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3. To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus,
in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press
cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to
press clothes.
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4. To embrace closely; to hug.
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Leucothoe shook at these alarms,
And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. --Pope.
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5. To oppress; to bear hard upon.
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Press not a falling man too far. --Shak.
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6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or
hunger.
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7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon
or over; to constrain; to force; to compel.
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Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the
Jews that Jesus was Christ. --Acts xviii.
5.
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8. To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or
inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as,
to press divine truth on an audience.
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He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.
--Dryden.
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Be sure to press upon him every motive. --Addison.
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9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard;
as, to press a horse in a race.
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The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed
on, by the king's commandment. --Esther viii.
14.
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Note: Press differs from drive and strike in usually denoting
a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive
and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.
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{Pressed brick}. See under {Brick}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Press \Press\, v. i.
1. To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or
urge with steady force.
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2. To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way
with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to
crowd; to throng; to encroach.
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They pressed upon him for to touch him. --Mark iii.
10.
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3. To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong
or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the
judgment.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Press \Press\, n. [F. presse. See 4th {Press}.]
1. An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is
pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an
impression of a body is taken; sometimes, the place or
building containing a press or presses.
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Note: Presses are differently constructed for various
purposes in the arts, their specific uses being
commonly designated; as, a cotton press, a wine press,
a cider press, a copying press, etc. See {Drill press}.
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2. Specifically, a printing press.
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3. The art or business of printing and publishing; hence,
printed publications, taken collectively, more especially
newspapers or the persons employed in writing for them;
as, a free press is a blessing, a licentious press is a
curse.
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4. An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of
articles; as, a clothes press. --Shak.
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5. The act of pressing or thronging forward.
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In their throng and press to that last hold. --Shak.
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6. Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a
press of engagements.
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7. A multitude of individuals crowded together; ? crowd of
single things; a throng.
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They could not come nigh unto him for the press.
--Mark ii. 4.
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{Cylinder press}, a printing press in which the impression is
produced by a revolving cylinder under which the form
passes; also, one in which the form of type or plates is
curved around a cylinder, instead of resting on a flat
bed.
{Hydrostatic press}. See under {Hydrostatic}.
{Liberty of the press}, the free right of publishing books,
pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint or
censorship, subject only to punishment for libelous,
seditious, or morally pernicious matters.
{Press bed}, a bed that may be folded, and inclosed, in a
press or closet. --Boswell.
{Press of sail}, (Naut.), as much sail as the state of the
wind will permit.
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