press

to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

With tears and ſmiles ſhe took her ſon, and preſs'd / Th' illuſtrious infant to her fragrant breaſt.

to press cloth with a clothes-iron

to press a crowd back

He turns from us; / Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him / He would reveal, but dare not. Sir, be comforted.

The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.

to press the Bible on an audience

to press a horse in a race

God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name.

If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not.

The peaceful peasant to the wars is press'd.