Word Meanings - COMPRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.

• Forcemeat
  Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Forcement
  The act of forcing; compulsion.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Compressed
  of Compress
• Forceps
  A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers,
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Compressing
  of Compress
• Force pump
  A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston.
• Compress
  To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.
• Compressibility
  The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.
• Compressible
  Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
• Powerable
  Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible.
• Compressibleness
  The quality of being compressible; compressibility.

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