Word Meanings - PRESSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of pressing; pressure.

• Presspack
  To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.
• Pressurage
  Pressure.
• Presscapula
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• 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.
• 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
• Pressgang
  See Press gang, under Press.
• PRESSREVISE
  A proof for final revision.
• 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.
• Pressiroster
  One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
• Pressirostral
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• Pressitant
  Gravitating; heavy.

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