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To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress. To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed. Dryden.

A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed.

The last proof for correction before sending to press.

A proof for final revision.

Usually Press work. The work of a press agent. [Chiefly Theat. Cant]

ntaining a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear.

One who, or that which, presses. Presser bar, or Presser wheel (Knitting machine), a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them. -- Presser foot, the part of a sewing machine which rests on the cloth and presses it down upon the table of the machine.…

See Press gang, under Press.

Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity. -- Press"ing*ly, adv.

The act of pressing; pressure. Sir I. Newton.

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

Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.

Gravitating; heavy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Closely; concisely. [Obs.]

One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.

Causing, or giving rise to, pressure or to an increase of pressure; as, pressor nerve fibers, stimulation of which excites the vasomotor center, thus causing a stronger contraction of the arteries and consequently an increase of the arterial blood pressure; -- opposed to depressor. Landois & Stirling.…

To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.

Pressure.

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.