pressing bag (pre sing bag)

A bag of horsehair to contain flaxseed from which oil is to be expre ed, or to hold stearic acid under pres sure, and for similar uses. pre ing-board (pres'ing-bord), n. 1. One of the glazed millboards used by printers to put between printed sheets as resists to the im- pre ion these sheets receive in a standing- pre .-2. One of the smoothly jointed boards of pine or cherry used in standing-pre es.-3. An ironing-board. pre ing-iron (pres'ing-i"èrn), n . or smoothing-iron. A flat-iron Your pre ing - iron will make no perfect courtier. Go stitch at home, and cozen your poor neighbours. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, iii. 2. pre ingly (pres'ing-li), adv. In a pre ing manner; with force or urgency; closely. pre ingne (pres ́ing-nes), n. Pre ure; urgency. This consideration alone might apply itself with pre ingne upon us. R. Allestree, Sermons, xviii. ( Latham.) pre ing-plate (pres'ing-plāt), n. In an oil pre , one of the follower-boards which are alternated with bags of the material to be pre ed. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [II. 208.