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.

Cylinder \Cyl"in*der\ (s?l"?n-d?r), n. [F. cylindre, OF.
   cilindre, L. cylindrus, fr. Gr. ky`lindros, fr. kyli`ndein,
   kyli`ein, to roll. Cf. {Calender} the machine.]
   1. (Geom.)
      (a) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of
          a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of
          rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is
          oblong, and the cross section is circular.
      (b) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The
          space may be limited or unlimited in length.

   2. Any hollow body of cylindrical form, as:
      (a) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is
          moved by the force of steam.
      (b) The barrel of an air or other pump.
      (c) (Print.) The revolving platen or bed which produces
          the impression or carries the type in a cylinder
          press.
      (d) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a
          revolver.

   3. The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a
      Jacquard loom.

   {Cylinder axis}. (Anat.) See {Axis cylinder}, under {Axis}.
      

   {Cylinder engine} (Paper Making), a machine in which a
      cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous
      sheet to the dryers.

   {Cylinder escapement}. See {Escapement}.

   {Cylinder glass}. See {Glass}.

   {Cylinder mill}. See {Roller mill}.

   {Cylinder press}. See {Press}.

Source : WordNet®

cylinder press
     n : a printing press where the type is carried on a flat bed
         under a cylinder that holds paper and rolls over the type
         [syn: {flatbed press}]