Word Meanings - PRESSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation.

• Pressman
  One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
• Oppressive
  Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe, rigorous, or harsh; as, oppressive taxes; oppressive exactions of service; an oppressive game law.
• 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.
• Pressing
  of Press
• Presstriction
  Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight.
• Taxation
  The act of laying a tax, or of imposing taxes, as on the subjects of a state, by government, or on the members of a corporation or company, by the proper authority; the raising of revenue; also, a system of raising revenue.
• Pressgang
  See Press gang, under Press.
• Pression
  The act of pressing; pressure.
• Urgently
  In an urgent manner.
• Pressiroster
  One of a tribe of wading birds (Pressirostres) including those which have a compressed beak, as the plovers.
• 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.

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