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Press :: Press (v.) 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..

Compressure :: Compressure (n.) Compression.

Twitch :: Twitch (n.) A stick with a hole in one end through which passes a loop, which can be drawn tightly over the upper lip or an ear of a horse. By twisting the stick the compression is made sufficiently painful to keep the animal quiet during a slight surgical operation..

Strangulated :: Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia..

Compressor :: Compressor (n.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., the femoral artery) or other part..

Siren :: Siren (n.) An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.

Reed :: Reed (n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube..

Compressibility :: Compressibility (n.) The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids..

Air Gun :: Air gun () A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger..

Pressiroster :: Pressiroster (n.) One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A rectangular frame, with a tightening screw, used for compressing the joints of framework, etc..

Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston; viz., admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission..

Pinch :: Pinch (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip..

Windage :: Windage (n.) The sudden compression of the air caused by a projectile in passing close to another body.

Constrain :: Constrain (v. t.) To bring into a narrow compass; to compress.

Pinching :: Pinching (a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches..

Constrictor :: Constrictor (n.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter..

Thumbkin :: Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

Crush :: Crush (n.) A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.

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