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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
press gang
n 1: a detachment empowered to force civilians to serve in the
army or navy
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Impress \Im"press\, n.; pl. Impresses.
1. The act of impressing or making.
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2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the
image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if
by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
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The impresses of the insides of these shells.
--Woodward.
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This weak impress of love is as a figure
Trenched in ice. --Shak.
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3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. --South.
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4. A device. See Impresa. --Cussans.
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To describe . . . emblazoned shields,
Impresses quaint. --Milton.
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5. [See Imprest, Press to force into service.] The act of
impressing, or taking by force for the public service;
compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
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Why such impress of shipwrights? --Shak.
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Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to
impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their
entering service, to men who have been impressed.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Press \Press\, n. [For prest, confused with press.]
A commission to force men into public service, particularly
into the navy.
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I have misused the king's press. --Shak.
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Press gang, or Pressgang, a detachment of seamen under
the command of an officer empowered to force men into the
naval service. See Impress gang, under Impress.
Press money, money paid to a man enlisted into public
service. See Prest money, under Prest, a.
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