Definition of press

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

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Press :: Press (n.) An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press..
Impressing :: Impressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Impres.
Sensibility :: Sensibility (n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural..
Loud :: Loud (superl.) Emphatic; impressive; urgent; as, a loud call for united effort..
Dejection :: Dejection (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
Biffin :: Biffin (n.) A baked apple pressed down into a flat, round cake; a dried apple..
Lightly :: Lightly (adv.) With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly..
Depriment :: Depriment (a.) Serving to depress.
Droop :: Droop (v. i.) To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped..
Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..
Submissly :: Submissive (a.) Showing a readiness to submit; expressing submission; as, a submissive demeanor..
Reprove :: Reprove (v. t.) To express disapprobation of; as, to reprove faults..
Speech :: Speech (n.) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
Compressor :: Compressor (n.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part..
Bulkhead :: Bulkhead (n.) A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front..
Dispirited :: Dispirited (a.) Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted.
Bosom :: Bosom (n.) A depression round the eye of a millstone.
Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters..
Sigh :: Sigh (v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like..
Woodbury-type :: Woodbury-type (n.) A process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing..
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