press 
between cam-wheels rising and falling between guides. 
Rolling-pressure press, a press In which the follower 
i - (< pri'&sfil by the pressure of a roller at the end of a 
pivoted extension-bar, which is caused by levers to trav- 
erse to and fro. Sewing-press, a wooden frame in which 
books are sewed and prepared for binding. Workshop Re- 
ceipts, Bookbinding, 4th ser. - Standing-press, a heavy 
press flrmly attached to floor and ceiling, used by printers 
and bookbinders : so called to distinguish it from portable 
presses, such as are used by bookbinders. Stanhope 
press, a form of printing-press Invented by the Earl of 
Stanhope. Striking-up press.a press used, In making 
cups or pots, to strike up the metal or raise it from the in- 
terior. To correct tne press, to correct proofs. 
Herecomes . . . theproof of my East India speech from 
Hansard ; so I must put my letter aside and correct the press. 
Macatilay, in Trevelyan, I. v. 
Tyre-revolving press. See cylinder-press, 
press 2 (pres), v. fA verb due to confusion of 
press- in press-gang, press-money, erroneously 
used for "prest-gang, prest-money, etc., with 
press*, force, etc. So impress, and F. presser, 
m like sense.] I. trans. To force into service, 
especially into military or naval service; im- 
press. 
To the Tower, about shipping of some more pressed men. 
Pepys, Diary, II. 410. 
There are a couple of Impudent fellows at an inn In Hoi- 
born who have affronted me, and you would oblige me in- 
finitely by pressing them into his majesty's service. 
Caiman, Jealous Wife, ill. 
She Is rather an arbitrary writer too for here are a 
great many poor words pressed into the service of this note 
that would get their habeas corpus from any court in Chris- 
tendom. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 2. 
II. intrans. To act as a press-gang; force 
persons into military or naval service. 
The legality of pressing Is so fully established that it 
will not now admit of a doubt in any court of justice. 
Christian, Note on Blackstone'g Com., I. xiii. 
press 2 (pres), . [<j>ress 2 , i'.] An order or com- 
mission to impress men into public service, par- 
ticularly into the army or navy. 
I have misused the king's press damnably. I have got, 
in exchange of a hundred and fifty soldiers, three hundred 
and odd pounds. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 13. 
They shrink like seamen when a prem comes out. 
Dryden, Wild Gallant, Epll. (1667), 1. 22. 
press-agent (pres'a/jent), n. A man employed 
to attend to newspaper advertising, and supply 
editors with news of changes of program, cast, 
etc. [Theatrical slang.] 
press-beam (pres'bem), . A compression- 
beam. 
press-bed (pres'bed), . A bed inclosed in solid 
woodwork like a cupboard, or made to fold or 
turn up so as to be put in a cupboard. 
I was to sleep in a little press-bed In Dr. Johnson's room. 
Boswetl, Tour to the Hebrides, p. 85. 
press-blanket (pres'blang'ket), n. A flannel, 
cloth, or felt used on a printing-press to equal- 
ize the impression. 
press-blocks (pres'bloks), n. pi. Clumps of 
wood used in a standing-press to fill up the space 
not occupied by paper or books. 
press-boards (pres'bordz), . pi. In printing, 
smooth and neatly jointed boards of wood be- 
tween which printed sheets are pressed in the 
standing-press. 
press-boy (pres'boi), n. Same as machine-hoy. 
press-cake (pres'kak), n. In tjunpotcdfr-manuj'., 
incorporated cake, or mill-cake, ready for gran- 
ulation. E. H. Knight. 
presser (pres'er), n. [< ME. pre.tsour; < OF. 
presseur, <. presser, press: see press 1 .'] 1. One 
who or that which presses. Especially (a) One 
who presses garments for the purpose of renovating them, 
or who presses cloth after dyeing. 
I give the profits to dyers and praters. Svrtfl. 
(b) One who works a press of any kind. 
But who In England cares about the singing in these 
fishing towns singing which is only wilder and weirder 
than that of the cotton pressers of Louisiana? 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 960. 
(c) In eeram., the workman who molds the handles, ears, 
and decorative reliefs to be applied to a pottery vessel be- 
fore firing. 
2. One who inculcates or enforces with argu- 
ment or importunity. 
A common practiser and prearrol the late Illegal Inno- 
vations. 
J. White, First Century of Malignant Priests (1628X p. 48. 
{(Latham.) 
3. In miirli.: (a) In a knitting-machine, a bar 
which forces the barb of the needle into the 
groove of the shank to free the loop of yarn. 
(6) In a sewing-machiiip,the presser-foot which 
holds the fabric under the needle. See cnt 
under premier-foot, (c) A form of ironing-ma- 
chine. (ii\ In spinning, the pressure-roller of a 
drawing-frame, or the spring-linger of a bobbin- 
frame. A'. //. Kniljht. 
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presser-bar (pres'er-biir), n. Same as presser, 
3 (a). 
presser-flyer (pres'6r-fli'er), n. In spinning: 
(a) In a bobbin-frame, a flyer having a spring- 
arm or -finger (called presser) which presses 
against the bobbin to regulate the tension in 
winding on the yarn as it is spun. (6) A bob- 
bin-frame on which presser-flyers are used. 
presser-foot (pres'6r-fut), n. ' In a sewing-ma- 
: b 
a, Presser-foot, which is attached by thumb-screw f>, passing through 
slot f, and screwing into bar rf. This is represented raised to allow 
the insertion of cloth under the inclined forward part of the foot. The 
bar and the foul are then lowered, pressing the cloth firmly upon the 
oscillating feed at t; / is the needle, which carries thread A through 
slot in foot and perforation f in throat-plate. 
chine, a foot-plate by which the fabric is pressed 
against the face of the feed. 
presser-frame (pres'r-fram), n. In spinning, 
a frame furnished with presser-flyers. K. H. 
Knight. 
press-fatt (pres'fat), n. A vat belonging to an 
olive- or wine-press, used for the collection of 
the oil or wine. 
When one came to the press.fat for to draw out fifty ves- 
sels out of the press, there were but twenty. Hag. iL 16. 
press-gang (pres'gang), . [< press*, prest, + 
A detachment under the command of 
Bills of Pressirostres. 
I. Lapwing ( YantllHs cris- 
talus). 2. Golden plover 
{Charaelrius dominicHi). 3. 
Turnstone {Strefsilai inter- 
fra). 
an officer empowered to impress men into the 
public service, especially the naval service. 
last week a Lieutenant came hither with a Prc** Gang, 
and had so good Success that he soon Olean'd up a con- 
siderable number. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[II. 208. 
Men were kidnapped, literally disappeared, and nothing 
was ever heard of them again. The street of a busy town 
was not safe from such jn-w i/ang captures. 
Mrs. QasktU, Sylvia's Lovers, I. 
press-gang (pres'gang), r. i. [(press-gang, M.] 
To act as a press-gang. [Rare.] 
There'll be no more press-ganging here a while. 
Mrs. GasJreU, Sylvia's l-overs, vii. 
press-girthing (pres'ger'thing), n. The belt of 
leather which moves the bed of a hand-press to 
and from impression. 
pressing (pres'ing), n. [Verbal n. of press 1 , r.] 
1. The act of one who presses; pressure. 
2. What is expressed or squeezed out; what 
comes from a substance under pressure, as oil, 
juice, etc. 
pressing (pres'ing), p. a. Requiring instant at- 
tention or action ; urgent. 
An annuity for life of four thousand pounds was settled 
on Hastings ; and, In order to enable him to meet pressing 
demands, ne was to receive ten years annuity In advance. 
Macatilay, Warren Hastings. 
A pressing emergency required instant remedy. 
W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 126. 
pressing-bag (pres'lng-bagl, n. A bag of horse- 
hair to contain flaxseed from which oil is to be 
expressed, or to hold stearic acid under pres- 
sure, and for similar uses. 
pressing-board (pres'ing-bord), n. 1. One of 
the glazed millboards used by printers to put 
between printed sheets as resists to the im- 
pression these sheets receive in a standing- 
press. 2. One of the smoothly jointed boards 
of pine or cherry used in standing-presses. 3. 
An ironing-board. 
pressing-iron (pres'ing-i'ern), n. A flat-iron 
or smoothing-iron. 
Your pressing-iron will make no perfect courtier. 
Go stitch at home, and cozen your poor neighbours. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, lit. 2. 
pressingly (pres'ing-li), adv. In a pressing 
manner; with force or urgency ; closely. 
pressingness (pres'ing-nes), n. Pressure; ur- 
This consideration alone might apply itself with press- 
ingncss upon us. R. Allestree, Sermons, xvlii. (Latham.) 
pressing-plate (pres'ing-plat), n. In an oil- 
press, one of the follower-boards which are al- 
ternated with bags of the material to be pressed. 
press-mark 
pressing-roller (pres'ing-ro'ler), n. Inpaper- 
makimj, a roller of iron, or of iron covered with 
brass, which squeezes out the water from the 
pulp or the felt. In England called press-roll. 
See paper-making machine. 
pression (presh'on), n. [< P. pression = 8p. 
pinion = Pg. prcssOo = It. pressione, < L. pres- 
gio(n-), a pressing, pressure, < premere, pp. 
pressus, press: see press 1 .'] 1. The act of press- 
ing; pressure. 
Are not all my hypotheses erroneous in which light Is 
supposed to consist In pression or motion propagated 
through a fluid medium? H'hmell. 
2. In Cartesian pliilos., an endeavor to move. 
pressiroster (pres-i-ros'ter), w. [See Pressi- 
rostres.'] A member of the Pressirostren. 
pressirostral (pres-i-ros'tral), a. [< NL. Pres- 
sirostres + -al.] 1. Pertaining to the Pressi- 
rostres. 2. Having a compressed bill shaped 
more or less like that of a plover. 
Pressirostres (pres-i-ros'trez), . ;;/. [NL., < 
L. pressus, pp. of pre- 
mere, press, compress, 
+ rostrum, a beak: see 
rostrum.] In Cuvier"s 
system of classification, 
a group of Grallce, includ- 
ing the bustards, plovers, 
and some others, among 
them the cariama: so 
called from the compres- 
sion or contraction of the 
bill of some of its mem- 
bers. It corresponds in the 
main to the Charadritimorphee 
of later writers, or that large 
group of wading birds known 
as the plover-snipe group. 
pressitantt (pres'i-tant), 
a. [< ML. as if "pressitan(t-)8, ppr. of 'pressi- 
tare, freq. of li.pressare, press down : secure** 1 , 
r.] Exerting pressure ; gravitating; heavy. 
Neither the celestial matter of the vortices, nor the air, 
nor water are prestsitant in their proper place. 
Dr. H. More. 
pressiyet (pres'iv), a. [< press 1 + -re.] 1. 
Pressing; requiring immediate attention and 
despatch. 2. Oppressive. 
How did he make silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, 
If the exactions were Bopressivef 
Up. Hall, Cent., xviiL 1. (Latliam.) 
press-ketcht (pres'kech), w. A ketch or small 
vessel used for patrolling harbors and for press- 
ing seamen. 
Irish Letters of the 26th past say they continue to beat 
up for Soldiers at Dublin, where abundance list themselves, 
and that some Prem*- Ketches in that Harbour have pressed 
400 Seamen within a few Days, and that a great many are 
voluntarily come in. 
Quoted in Ashtan't Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[II. 208. 
press-key (pres'ke), . A small turn-screw 
used by book-sewers to tighten the cords of a 
sewing-press. 
presslyt (pres'li), arfr. [Appar. < "press, a. (< 
L. pressus, pp., pressed), + -ly%. Cf. pressness."\ 
Closely; compactly; concisely; succinctly. 
Though he may pursue his task predy and coherently, 
yet, because of the small Importance of the matter de- 
bated of, his discourse must needs be both very tedious 
and not very profitable. 
Parker, Platonlcke 1'hilosophle (2d ed., 1667X p. 89. 
No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more 
weightily /;. Jonson, Works (ed. Gilford), p. 748. 
pressman 1 (pres'man), n.; pi. pressmen (-men). 
[< press 1 + man.'} 1. One who is engaged in 
pressing; specifically, one who attends to a 
wine-press. 
One only path to all, by which the pressemen came 
In time of vintage. Chapman, Iliad, zvili. 
2. One who operates or has charge of a print- 
ing-press; specifically, a printer who does press- 
work; one who runs a hand-press, or who man- 
ages a press or presses run by steam or other 
power. 
Watts, after some weeks, desiring to have me In the 
composing-room, I left the prrmneii. 
FranUin, Aatoblog., p. 147. 
3. In journalism, sometimes, a man employed 
on the press; a writer or reporter for a news- 
paper. 
pressman 2 (pres'man), .; pLjprMfMM (-men). 
[< prriut- + /.] 1. One of a press-gang who 
aids in forcing men into military or naval ser- 
vice. 2. A man impressed into the public 
siTviri-. MS the army or navy. 
press-mark (pret'mlrk), . [< ;y.i, n., 12, + 
'.] In libraries, ii mark put upon H vol- 
ume, generally by label or a writing upon a 
