Word Meanings - PRESSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
of Press
- Presspack
To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press. - Presscapula
The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula. - Pressurage
Pressure. - Pressure
The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand. - Presswork
The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done. - Presstriction
Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. - PRESSBOARD
A kind of highly sized rag paper or board, sometimes containing a small admixture of wood pulp; -- so called because used originally, as now, in presses for pressing and finishing knit underwear. - Pressgang
See Press gang, under Press. - PRESSCAKE
A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue a - PRESSREVISE
A proof for final revision. - Pressiroster
One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers. - PRESSUREWIRES
Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points. - Pressirostral
Of or pertaining to the pressirosters. - Pressitant
Gravitating; heavy.
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