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   Impress , n.; pl. Impresses .
   The act of impressing or making.
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   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.
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   The impresses of the insides of these shells.
   Woodward.
   
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   This weak impress of love is as a figure
   Trenched in ice.
   Shak.
   
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   Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
   South.
   
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   A device. See Impresa.
   Cussans.
   
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   To describe . . . emblazoned shields,
   Impresses quaint.
   Milton.
   
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   [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.
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   Why such impress of shipwrights?
   Shak.
   
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   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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