Press

v. a. (pre er, French.) 1. To squeeze; to crush (Milton. 2. To distre ; to crush with calamities (Shakspeare), 3.To constrain; to compel; to urge by nece ity (Hooker), 4.'To impose by constraint (Dryden). 5. To drive by violence (Shakspeare). 6. To affect strongly (4cés). 7. To enforce; to inculeate with argument or importunity (Felton). 8. To urge; to bear strongly on (Boyle), 9. To compre ; to hug (Pope). 10. ‘To act upon with weight (Dryden). 11. To make earnest (Bacon). 12. To force into military service (Shakspeare).