To urge with force or weight; a word of extensive use, denoting the application of any power, physical or moral, to something that is to be moved or affected. We press the ground with the feet when we walk; we press the couch on which we repose; we press substances with the hands, fingers or arms; the smith presses iron with his vise; we are pressed with the weight of arguments or of cares, troubles and business.

To squeeze; to crush; as, to press grapes. Genesis 40:11.

To drive with violence; to hurry; as, to press a horse in motion, or ina race.

To urge; to enforce; to inculcate with earnestness; as, to press divine truth on an audience.

To embrace closely; to hug. Leucothoe shook . And press’d Palemon closer in her arms.

To force into service, particularly into naval service; to impress.

To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or with difficulties.

To constrain; to compel; to urge by authority or necessity. The posts that rode on mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. Esther 8:174.

To urge; to impose by importunity. He pressed a letter upon me, within this hour, to deliver to you.

To urge or solicit with earnestness or importunity. He pressed me to accept of his offer.

To urge; to constrain. Paul was pressed in spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ. Acts 18:5. Wickedness pressed with conscience, forecasteth grievous things.

To squeeze for making smooth; as cloth or paper. Press differs from drive and strike, in usually denoting a slow or continued application of force; whereas drive and strike denote a sudden impulse of force.

To urge or strain in motion; to urge forward with force. I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14. Th’ insulting victor presses on the more.

To bear on with force; to encroach. On superior powers . Were we to press, inferior might on ours.

To bear on with force; to crowd; to throng. Thronging crowds press on you as you pass.

To approach unseasonably or importunately. Nor press too near the throne.

To urge with vehemence and importunity. He pressed upon them greatly, and they turned in to him. Genesis 19:3.

To urge by influence or moral force. When arguments press equally in matters indifferent, the safest method is to give up ourselves to neither.

To push with force; as, to press against the door.

An instrument or machine by which any body is squeezed, crushed or forced into a more compact form; as a wine-press, cider- press or cheese-press.