Bible Dictionaries
Pressure

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Electro-motive force.

(2):

(n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

(3):

(n.) Urgency; as, the pressure of business.

(4):

(n.) Impression; stamp; character impressed.

(5):

(n.) Affliction; distress; grievance.

(6):

(n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

(7):

(n.) The action of a force against some obstacle or opposing force; a force in the nature of a thrust, distributed over a surface, often estimated with reference to the upon a unit's area.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pressure'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/pressure.html. 1828.