Word Meanings - PRESSWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.

• Reliefless
  Destitute of relief; also, remediless.
• Presspack
  To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.
• Surface
  The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body.
• Presscapula
  The part of the scapula in front of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
• Pressurage
  Pressure.
• Surfaced
  of Surface
• Pressure
  The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
• Surfacer
  A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal, stone, etc.
• Presswork
  The art of printing from the surface of type, plates, or engravings in relief, by means of a press; the work so done.
• MEANSPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• Pressing
  of Press
• 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.

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