Part 5635

<blockquote>The <b>impresses</b> of the insides of these shells. <i>Woodward.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>This weak <b>impress</b> of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.</def>

<i>South.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A device. See <er>Impresa</er>.</def>

<i>Cussans.</i>

<blockquote>To describe . . . emblazoned shields, <b>Impresses</b> quaint. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <ety>[See <er>Imprest</er>, <er>Press</er> to force into service.]</ety> <def>The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.</def>

<blockquote>Why such <b>impress</b> of shipwrights? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Impress gang</col>, <cd>a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.</cd> -- <col>Impress money</col>, <cd>a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.</cd></cs>

<h1>Impressibility</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*press`i*bil"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.</def>

<h1>Impressible</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*press"i*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>impressible</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Im*press"i*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> -- <wf>Im*press"i*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Impression</h1> <Xpage=738>

<hw>Im*pres"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>impression</ets>, L. <ets>impressio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is impressed; stamp; mark; indentation; sensible result of an influence exerted from without.</def>

<blockquote>The stamp and clear <b>impression</b> of good sense. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To shelter us from <b>impressions</b> of weather, we must spin, we must weave, we must build. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which impresses, or exercises an effect, action, or agency; appearance; phenomenon.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Portentous blaze of comets and <b>impressions</b> in the air. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A fiery <b>impression</b> falling from out of Heaven. <i>Holland.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Influence or effect on the senses or the intellect hence, interest, concern.</def>

<i>Reid.</i>

<blockquote>His words <b>impression</b> left. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Such terrible <b>impression</b> made the dream. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I have a father's dear <b>impression</b>, And wish, before I fall into my grave, That I might see her married. <i>Ford.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.</def>