Definition of press

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Press (n.) To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress..

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Entreaty :: Entreaty (n.) The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation.
Numeration :: Numeration (n.) The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method..
Experience :: Experience (n.) The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering..
Exclamatory :: Exclamatory (a.) Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, an exclamatory phrase or speaker..
Decimal :: Decimal (n.) A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction..
Alligator :: Alligator (n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press..
Say :: Say (v. t.) To utter or express in words; to tell; to speak; to declare; as, he said many wise things..
Self-acting :: Self-acting (a.) Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-acting feed apparatus; a self-acting mule; a self-acting press..
Jesuitess :: "Jesuitess (n.) One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633..
Incubus :: Incubus (n.) Any oppressive encumbrance or burden; anything that prevents the free use of the faculties.
Dispute :: Dispute (v. i.) Verbal controversy; contest by opposing argument or expression of opposing views or claims; controversial discussion; altercation; debate.
Benediction :: Benediction (n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness..
Condense :: Condense (v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize..
Overgrow :: Overgrow (v. t.) To grow beyond; to rise above; hence, to overcome; to oppress..
Un- :: Un- () An inseparable verbal prefix or particle. It is prefixed: (a) To verbs to express the contrary, and not the simple negative, of the action of the verb to which it is prefixed; as in uncoil, undo, unfold. (b) To nouns to form verbs expressing privation of the thing, quality, or state expressed by the noun, or separation from it; as in unchild, unsex. Sometimes particles and participial adjectives formed with this prefix coincide in form with compounds of the negative prefix un- (see 2d Un-
Pathetic :: Pathetic (a.) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Knead :: Knead (v. t.) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; esp., to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, as the materials of bread, cake, etc.; as, to knead dough..
Deprecate :: Deprecate (v. t.) To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly..
Preterit :: Preterit (a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
Dreadful :: Dreadful (a.) Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm..
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