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[Pref. pre-, and Eng. spinal.] Anat.: Situated in front of the spine. pre (1), *pres, v . t . & i . [Fr. pre er=to pre , to strain, from Lat. pre o , a frequent. from pre us, pa. par. of premo =to pre .] IMG:content-1497.png:[blocks in formation] 6. To crowd upon; to throng round or against. ( Luke viii. 45.) 7. To follow closely upon; to keep close to. 8. To urge, to ply hard, to constrain: to plead earnestly with; to solicit with earnestne or importunity. "Pre me not."- Shakesp .: Winter's Tale , i. 2. 9. To urge or compel the acceptance of; to offer with earnestne ; as, He pre ed the offer on me. 10. To straiten, to distre ; to weigh or bear down upon. ( Psalm xxxviii. 2.) 11. To bear hard upon; to ply hard. *12. To affect strongly. ( Acts xviii. 5.) 13. To inculcate with earnestne or importunity; to enforce, to urge. "The President had not insisted upon pre ing views of his own." -London Daily Telegraph . 14. To offer freely. *15. To commit to the pre ; to print. "The discourse upon this conference staid long before it could endure to be pre ed." - Heylin: Life of Laud, p. 121. B. Intransitive: 1. To exert pre ure; to act with weight or compre ive force. IMG:content-1498.png:[blocks in formation] " Pre ing too much into the secrets of heaven." -South: Sermons, vol. iv., ser. 7. 6. To bear or weigh heavily; as, His difficulties are pre ing. *7. To urge with vehemence or importunity; to importune, to solicit earnestly. unto him." -Genesis xix. 3. "He pre ed upon them greatly, and they turned in *8. To act with weight or influence; to have influence or moral force. (1) To pre sail : Naut .: To crowd sail. [CROWD, v .] (2) To pre upon : To attack or pursue closely; to attack violently. pre (2), v . t . [A corrupt. of prest ready, the spelling being influenced by the compulsion used in forcing men to enter into the naval service.] [PREST.] *1. To hire for service at sea. "I was prest to go on the third voyage." -Hackluyt: Voyages, iii. 487. 2. To impre ; to force into service, especially into the naval service. [IMPRESSMENT.] *3. To constrain, to oblige. "I was prest by his majesty's commands, to a ist at the treaty." Temple : Miscellanies . pre (1), *prease, *prea e, *prees, *pres, *pre e, s . [Fr. pre e a pre ing, a throng, from pre er=to pre .) (PRESS (1), v.] *1. A crowd, a throng. "There wes a great prease about the king."-Grafton: Chronicle; Edward III. (an. 30). *2. A hand-to-hand fight; a mêlée, an affray. 3. The act of pre ing or pushing forward; a crowding, a thronging. "In their throng and pre to that last hold." Shakesp.: King John, v. 7. 4. Urgency, pre ure; urgent demands of busine or affairs; as, a pre of busine . ing, compre ing or crushing any body or substance, 5. An instrument or machine for pre ing, squeezor for forcing it into any desired and more compact form. Pre es are of various forms, according to the particular uses for which they are intended, and are usually distinguished by a descriptive prefix; as, a printing- pre , a hydraulic- pre , a cheese- pre , . 6. Specially applied to- (1) A wine-pre , a wine-vat. "Thy pre es burst with wine."- Proverbs , iii. 10. (2) A printing-pre (q. v.). pre -wheel roller, s. Agric.: A roller constructed of a series of wheels which combine to form a rolling ridge and hollow face, and avoid clogging, or the nece ity for a scraper to clean the roller. pre -work, 8. 1. Joinery: Cabinet work of a number of succe ive veneers cro ing grain, and united by glue, heat, and pre ure. 2. Print.: The act or proce of taking impre ions from type, ., by means of a pre ; the printing-off of a form by hand-pre . *pre -yard, s. A room or yard in New gate in which accused persons who refused to answer were subjected to the penalty of peine forte et dure (q. v.). "We have still in New gate what is called the pre yard."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. iv., ch. 25. pre (2), s . [PRESS (2), v.] A commi ion or order to pre or force men into service. "I have misused the king's pre ."-Shakesp.: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , iv. 2.