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PRESS (through Fr. presse from Lat. pressare, frequentative of premere, to crush, squeeze, press) , a word which appears in English in the 13th and 14th centuries with three particular ' The style "president " was in every case exchanged for that of " governor " within a few years of the proclamation of the independence of the United States. The title " president " is no longer used for any governor under the British Crown, but relics of past usage survive in the " presidencies " of Madras and Bombay.meanings, viz. (r) crowd or throng, often used of the melee in a battle, (2) a shelved cupboard for books or clothes, and (3) an apparatus for exerting pressure on various substances, and for various purposes. The first meaning is still current, though usually it has a literary air; a specific use is the nautical one of " press of sail," i.e. as much sail as the wind will allow; cf. the similar use of " crowd." The second use has given way to other words, but is still the technical term in use in libraries, where the books bear " press-marks " specifying the case or shelf where they may be found. As a term for a machine or apparatus for exerting pressure, there are innumerable examples, usually with a qualifying word giving the purpose for which the pressure is applied, either for attaining compression into a small space, or a required shape, or for extracting juices or liquids, or the methods adopted for exerting the pressure. The printing-press has given rise to obvious transferred uses of the word " press ": thus it is applied to an establishment for printing, e.g. the Clarendon Press, at Oxford, or the Pitt Press, at Cambridge , to a printing-house
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