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A receptacle for clothes.

One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.

A female coadjutor or assistant. Holland. Smollett.

To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.

A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.

A woman invested with authority to command. Hooker.

A woman who competes.

To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water. Events of centuries . . . compressed within the compass of a single life. D. Webster. The same strength of expression, though more compressed, runs through his hist…

Pressed together; compacted; reduced in volume by pressure.

made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.

The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

The quality of being compressible; compressibility.

The act of compressing, or state of being compressed. "Compression of thought." Johnson.

all arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part.

Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.

Anything which serves to compress; as:

Compression.

Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.