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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Impress \Im"press\, n.; pl {Impresses}. 1. The act of impressing or making. 2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence. The impresses of the insides of these shells. --Woodward. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. --Shak. 3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. --South. 4. A device. See {Impresa}. --Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. --Milton. 5. [See {Imprest}, {Press} to force into service.] The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights? --Shak. {Impress gang}, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. {Impress money}, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.
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