Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

   5. The act of pressing or thronging forward.

            In their throng and press to that last hold. --Shak.

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

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

            They could not come nigh unto him for the press.
                                                  --Mark ii. 4.

   {Cylinder press}, a printing press in which the impression is
      produced by a revolving cylinder under which the form
      passes; also, one in which the form of type or plates is
      curved around a cylinder, instead of resting on a flat
      bed.

   {Hydrostatic press}. See under {Hydrostatic}.

   {Liberty of the press}, the free right of publishing books,
      pamphlets, or papers, without previous restraint or
      censorship, subject only to punishment for libelous,
      seditious, or morally pernicious matters.

   {Press bed}, a bed that may be folded, and inclosed, in a
      press or closet. --Boswell.

   {Press of sail}, (Naut.), as much sail as the state of the
      wind will permit.