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Webster's English Dictionary

press

n. (Zol.) 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. ()

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. ()

To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed. (Dryden.)

n. [For prest, confused with press.] A commission to force men into public service, particularly into the navy. ()

I have misused the king's press. (Shak.)

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. ()

v. t. [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. ()

Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together. (Luke vi. 38.)

2. To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. ()

From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. (Milton.)

And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. (Gen. xl. 11.)

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. ()

4. To embrace closely; to hug. ()

Leucothoe shook at these alarms, And pressed Palemon closer in her arms. (Pope.)

5. To oppress; to bear hard upon. ()

Press not a falling man too far. (Shak.)

6. To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger. ()

7. To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or over; to constrain; to force; to compel. ()

Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. (Acts xviii. 5.)

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. ()

He pressed a letter upon me within this hour. (Dryden.)

Be sure to press upon him every motive. (Addison.)

9. To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard; as, to press a horse in a race. ()

The posts . . . went cut, being hastened and pressed on, by the king's commandment. (Esther viii. 14.)

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Pressed brick. See under Brick. ()

v. i. 1. To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or urge with steady force. ()

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. ()

They pressed upon him for to touch him. (Mark iii. 10.)

3. To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment. ()

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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2. Specifically, a printing press. ()

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. ()

4. An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press. (Shak.)

5. The act of pressing or thronging forward. ()

In their throng and press to that last hold. (Shak.)

6. Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press of engagements. ()

7. A multitude of individuals crowded together; crowd of single things; a throng. ()

They could not come nigh unto him for the press. (Mark ii. 4.)

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. ()