"Press" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In old practice. A piece or skin of parchment, several of which used to be sewed together in making up a roll or record of proceedings. See 1 Bl. Coram. 1S3; Townsh. Pl. 486

Urgent demands of business or affairs; urgency; as, a press
of engagements.

An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles;
as, a clothes press.

To exert pressure; to bear heavily; to push, crowd, or
urge with steady force.

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

To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in
order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales,
paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.

To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way
with violence or effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng;
to encroach.

To drive with violence; to hurry; to urge on; to ply hard;
as, to press a horse in a race.

To urge, or act upon, with force, as weight; to act upon by
pushing or thrusting, in distinction from pulling; to crowd or compel
by a gradual and continued exertion; to bear upon; to squeeze; to
compress; as, 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; we are pressed in a crowd.

The art or business of printing and publishing; hence,
printed publications, taken collectively, more especially newspapers or
the persons employed in writing for them; as, a free press is a
blessing, a licentious press is a curse.

To try to force (something upon some one); to urge or
inculcate with earnestness or importunity; to enforce; as, to press
divine truth on an audience.

Specifically, a printing press.

An apparatus or machine by which any substance or body is
pressed, squeezed, stamped, or shaped, or by which an impression of a
body is taken; sometimes, the place or building containing a press or
presses.

To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to
squeeze out, or express, from something.

A multitude of individuals crowded together; / crowd of
single things; a throng.

To urge with vehemence or importunity; to exert a strong
or compelling influence; as, an argument presses upon the judgment.

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

To exercise very powerful or irresistible influence upon or
over; to constrain; to force; to compel.

To oppress; to bear hard upon.

The act of pressing or thronging forward.

A commission to force men into public service, particularly
into the navy.

To embrace closely; to hug.

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is
arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and
varies from rusty red to maroon and to brownish black.