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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Urgent; exacting; importunate;

as, a

pressing

necessity

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Press′ing-ly

adv.

ppr.

Urging with force or weight; squeezing; constraining; crowding; embracing; distressing; forcing into service; rolling in a press.

a. Urgent; distressing.

Noun.

The act or operation of applying force to bodies. The pressing of cloth is performed by means of the screw, or by a calendar.